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...recent work upon "The Myths of the Odyssey," by an Englishwoman, Miss Harrison, is meeting with a great success in England. "We are indebted to Miss Harrison for laying down the lines upon which the Greek myths can be studied," says the Academy; and the Athenoeum declares that "it is only just to say that we are not acquainted with any book produced by any man at either university which does so much for the popular knowledge of ancient art as this work by a student from one of the Cambridge colleges for women." The author of this book...
London Truth furnishes a counterpart to an Oxford story of a solicitor, who, in trying for a degree in law, was "plucked" upon a text-book of which he was himself the author, as follows: "Two of the disappointed candidates at a recent examination for admission to the bar are men who have already attained eminence at the Indian bar, where the practice is substantially the same as in England, and where the standard of the bar is notoriously but little inferior. One of these gentlemen has for some years had a professional income of pound15,000 per annum...
...Providence Press regards it as a noteworthy fact that at the recent meeting of the Brown University graduates in Boston, no public reference was made to the poet Whittier's recently published letter urging that the doors of Brown be opened to women...
...John W. Garrett's recent arraignment of his fellow-trustees of Johns Hopkins University has excited deep interest throughout the country. He believes that they are not carrying out the wishes of the founder with sufficient haste, and that in the location of some buildings they are violating his wishes...
...only threatened with a universal era of co-education, but in the opinion of the president of Boston University, as expressed in his recent annual report, a still greater reform is in store for us. The time is not far distant, President Warren thinks, when women equally with men will be called to fill the professorships in our great universities, and indeed will come to supersede men as teachers and investigators in many branches of study. "As a rule," he says, "the old style teaching of languages, history and literature by men has always been mechanical, unsympathetic, spiritless...