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...FRIEND of the Gray collection has recently purchased the engraving stand in the Library, given it to the Scientific School, and presented us with a new one. The new stand will hold thirty leaves, each leaf half as large again as the old ones. It will thus be able to contain the larger engravings, which will not require to be sewed in. Though the whole number of leaves will not be mounted immediately, the engravings will probably be changed once a month...
There are in France about seventy-five or eighty lyceums, and two hundred and fifty colleges, situated, the former in the principal places of the departements, the latter in the principal places of the arondissements. Besides these public institutions there are also schools founded and governed by individuals, either secular or under church influence; so that in a certain sense it cannot be denied that liberty of instruction exists in France. Any individual of good record who has attained a certain rank at the University can obtain permission to open a school and obtain pupils. But, on the other hand...
...first place, the authority of the government must be obtained, and this the government can either give or refuse. Besides, the University alone can confer the degrees indispensable to a man who intends opening a school. There is yet more. The competition of the state destroys private enterprise. The state has at its disposition large resources, because it can draw on the purses of tax-payers. It can have installations more magnificent, and consequently professors more capable than the private individual, who cannot risk but a certain part of his capital Nor is this all. You can, it is true...
...Williams Vidette gives an exciting account of the hair-breath escape of two Sophomores, who were almost caught by the Prex. while smoking. All boarding-school boys will sympathize with them. We advise Williams students who use the weed to read Mr. Dick Swiveller, on the modes of escaping detection...
...High School, published at Omaha, is a large and well-printed sheet, but entirely devoted to educational matters, and is of little interest to the general reader...