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...March Century will contain a plea by Mrs. Runkle for the higher education of women, with special reference to the recent movement toward admitting women to Columbia College...
Prof. Sumner of Yale has written a very sharp reply to the recent personal attack of the New York Tribune upon him for his free trade doctrines. "It is not to the advantage of Yale College," the Tribune cried, excitedly, "that shallow and one-sided dogmatism directs its instruction in a science of the highest practical importance." Its editor then proceeds to utter an ominous warning to any other professors or colleges who may make so bold as to uphold free trade heresies...
...from special influences and special interests, to take his place well up in the ranks of free trade professors. Prof. Perry of Williams, also, seems to be the cause of great uneasiness to many people, and we believe that even some of the sons of the college, at a recent meeting at Cleveland, improved the occasion to attack his doctrines. Those who were guilty of this exhibition of disloyalty and bad taste smply showed that they had lost their heads. But perhaps when they made their ill-timed comments they were not aware that Gen. Garfield once said that Prof...
...recent issue of the well-known English astronomical periodical, the Observatory, Mr. A. M. W. Downing of Greenwich reviews a paper lately published in the memoirs of the American academy by Prof. W. A. Rogers of Cambridge, upon the "Harvard College Observatory Catalogue of Stars for 1875." The article by Prof. Rogers is a comparison of the catalogue with the fundamental systems of Anwers, Safford, Boss and Newcomb. This comparison, according to Mr. Downing, shows the excellence of the Harvard College Observatory star places, and goes far to justify the great relative weight which is assigned to them by American...
...Tales of Modern Oxford" is a recent English publication by the author of "Lays of Modern Oxford...