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Saturday's Transcript contains a sharp editorial criticism on the recent letter in the Nation on religious discipline at Harvard. In concluding it proposes an astonishing solution of the question, viz : "A leading churchman of this city favors the division of Harvard University into separate colleges, each religious denomination to have control of its own. He believes that this will some time take place...
...recent incipient fire in Holyoke ought surely to arouse the authorities to a sense of their responsibility. If such a fire should break out in the night-time in any of the college buildings, the disaster might include life as well as property. A number of these small fires have occurred during the past few years, but it would seem as if the lesson they teach would never be comprehended by the authorities. Are they relying on a system of chances, waiting until there is but one more chance left for a serious disaster, or will they never be convinced...
...this account a librarian cannot afford to exercise the right of selection in the reception of matter for his library, as it is impossible for him to know that the lightest and apparently most ephemeral works may not prove of great assistance to some specialist. Among the comparatively recent improvements in our libraries has been the introduction of the catalogue system. Formerly the librarian himself was expected to be a walking catalogue of his own library, and therefore was almost indispensable in connection with it. Mr. Winsor said he hoped that the time was not far distant when his specialty...
...Cornell Era argues excitedly over the recent introduction of the honor system at that college. "It has been known for some time," it cries, "that certain professors were very anxious to introduce into the university a system of honors resembling closely that in vogue at Harvard. In the first place it is an attempt to transplant into Cornell soil a plant which has flourished passably well among the cultured shades of Harvard. Perhaps it might be more exact to say that it is an attempt to ingraft upon the Cornell stock an offshoot of the Harvard system...
...United States it may be interesting to know that after Harvard come, in point of age, Yale founded in 1700; the college of New Jersey, 1746; University of Pennsylvania, 1749; Brown, 1764; and Dartmouth, 1769. Most of the other prominent colleges were chartered at a considerably more recent date...