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...Recent observations about the boat-house impresses one with the remarkable absence of any single sculls. The place fairly swarms at certain hours of the afternoon with the numerous candidates for the four class crews and the 'Varsity, but amid all these devotees to aquatic sports there appear no single scullers. When we remember Harvard's former glory in this respect, and the honors gained by her representatives abroad, as well as the well-contested victories in exciting local races, we feel that there exists at present a lamentable lack of interest in this kind of sport previously so popular...
...Science of Ethics," by Leslie Stephen, and "Macaulay," by Frederic Harrison, are recent English publications...
...England, examinations have become the main thing and practically control the teaching, although the true view of them would rather be that they should exist as a test of teaching. The examinations, though very old, had become purely formal in the last century: their present importance is comparatively recent. In the Cambridge Triposes, students have heretofore (for a change is now being made) been arranged according to merit. At Oxford the arrangement has been into classes according to merit, the successful men being arranged alphabetically in each class, so that it is not known, unless the examiners give private information...
...recent meeting of the National Association of Amateur Athletes in New York the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association was represented by E. J. Wendell and by W. S. Sloan of Columbia. The championship meeting will be held June 10. Mr. Wendell asked, on behalf of the Inter-Collegiate Association, that the rule disqualifying college base-ball players who competed with professional players where gate-money was charged, be rescinded, for the reason that they individually receive no part of the proceeds, but that the money received is entirely applied to paying the expenses of the nine. The rule was rescinded...
...memorial against the recent persecutions of the Jews has been published by the University of Oxford. 245 resident graduates have signed, among them, Professors Jowett, Rawlinson, Stubbs, Nettleship, Muller, Sayce and Legge...