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Newnham College, Cambridge, has now about eighty students in residence and makes a reasonable profit, out of which, however, during the past year, over L600 was devoted to reducing the cost of education by means of scholarships, exhibitions, and loans. An additional wing to the north hall and a hospital building are now in progress. Some magnificent donations have been recently made by Mrs. H. Sidgwick and Mr. Winkworth towards the cost of building a biological laboratory. The correspondence classes conducted in connection with Newnham College continue to be very useful in directing the studies of lady students residing...
...conclusion we would recommend all the various organizations to profit, more than is usually the case, by past experience, and we feel sure that if they earnestly endeavor to do this, Eighteen Eighty-Four will see the Crimson victorious wherever it is represented...
...command. He was rather an instructor of scholars than of students, and his vast erudition showed itself in his grammars and lexicons more than in the conduct of recitations, which with him was rather formal and unfruitful, though his occasional lectures were rich with suggestions for those who could profit by them. His early life, before he came to this country to be-come in an almost accidental way a teacher of the teachers in Greek learning, was shrouded in a mystery, real or apparent, which he always refused to dispel. Born near Mount Pelion and educated in the Mount...
...from this condition to a better appreciation of the thoughts of the author and the beauty of the language. By the end of the freshman year one is supposed to be quite familiar with the language. Four years have been invested, so to speak, in Greek. From merely a profit and loss point of view, is it better for one to go on a year or two more reading masterpieces of the literature, or to let what he has acquired go to oblivion ? Let freshmen seriously look at this view of the case before deciding to drop the classics after...
...material for eating. Though these remarks are particularly intended for those students who board themselves, there are many of them which are worthy the perusal of many a housekeeper or cook, while even the authorities of Memorial Hall might take some of Dr. Wilder's suggestions to heart with profit. After a few words of caution as to drinking-water, he goes on to say that "for healthy growing people the habitual use of tea or coffee is undesirable. Certainly they should be used in moderation." For harmless substitutes he suggests "wheat coffee" or "Fry's Cocoa Extract." Milk...