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...Ooge, of Ann Arbor. The object of this series which is being issued under the joint editorship of Prof. J. W. White of Harvard and Prof. Packard of Yale, is to furnish a number of editions of Greek authors with sound and practical notes, based on the best recent German editions. The notes are in the main to be translated from the German but will contain numerous additions, substitutions and omissions by the American editors always indicated in the printing. The books are to be printed after the plan of the well-known Weidmaun editions with notes on the same...
...feel compelled to comment upon a recent letter, in the Nation, on the "American School at Athens." Although the writer of the letter in question signs himself "A Well-wisher," we cannot help feeling that his manner of showing his good will is in somewhat questionable taste. It is a well known fact that the society intend in time to enlarge the possibilities of the school as quickly as the money that is needed is forthcoming. The appointment of a permanent sub-director, who shall be under the direction of the director but who shall always remain at the school...
...slightest evidence that he knows anything about humor. He learns the venerable practical jokes that have been handed down from one undergraduate generation to another. He never originates a new joke, but is content to repeat the stupid exploits of dull predecessors." Surely the Times man has overlooked the recent bench-greasing exploit at Dartmouth, or the illustrated supplement which the Yale News formerly indulged...
...English magazine has devoted three columns in a recent number to the evils of examinations, most of which applies mainly to preparatory and grammar schools. A few remarks, however, may be quoted with some bearing on the evils of the system here. It says: "It is no uncommon thing to find examination papers which an accomplished literary man would not undertake to answer unless he had two or three days and the aid of a good library. That too much is often required, that subjects are given which cannot be properly treated, and that much harm is done to boys...
Lady Florence Dixie has written a letter to the N. Y. Times denying the recent charges against...