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...recent will gave about $400,000 for the establishment of a college for the higher education of young women, in Philadelphia. The fund, however, will not be available for nearly a century. The young women will then be mature enough to profit...
...bills which, while running, we are not troubled about, but, when obliged to meet, we often find our capital too small to cover. This policy on the part of store-keepers should receive the condemnation of the upper class-men, because, through their example, the lower class-men frequently profit, more frequently become demoralized. Let the Co-operative Society help us to do away with...
...been a noticeable falling off in attendance at evening readings, a most admirable institution, as all have acknowledged. And in general, it is always a doubtful experiment here to attempt any lecture or entertainment that has achieved sure success elsewhere, but may here be entirely neglected and of no profit to any considerable number. In many cases, of course, the eternal grind of college work prevents advantage being taken of the many opportunities the college has offered of late years for voluntary instruction; and, as the tone of college sentiment at Harvard grows higher, it is to be hoped that...
...subjects given out for sophomore and junior themes, to the great gratification of those on whom this duty of writing falls. All who have labored in former years under a certain past regime will appreciate the improved order of things, and many will regret that the opportunity to profit by it is past. There is an undoubted and valuable advantage in the practice of theme-writing, and it is well that the subjects for inspiration have been made so much more interesting and the methods of criticism so much more advantageous. Nothing scarcely can equal the despair...
...valuable space to "College Chips," from which we learn that belligerent college students seem to be unpleasantly numerous just now; that students of the University of Pennsylvania are very important young men; that Yale boys should have what they want; that Harvard's Greek play netted a handsome profit; that the Harvard students who endeavored to disturb Oscar Wilde at his lecture in Boston, now realize that their action was not very creditable; that the college boat races next summer promise to be more exciting than ever, but that college presidents are opposed to the sport on the ground that...