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...School tug-of-war team will consist of C. P. Curtis, T. C. Batchlder, F. A. P. Frisbee, and J. H. B. Easton, anchor...
...Harvard Medical School, in Grove Street from which the students recently removed to the new building on Boylston Street, is at present occupied, in part, by the Dental School, though a large portion is unused, and likely to remain so for some time. It was erected in 1846, though its present deserted appearance would lead one to name a much earlier date. What the building will ultimately be used for is a question but there are not a few who see a favorable opportunity for an affirmative action on the petition recently received by the faculty to admit women...
...letter to the N. Y. Alumni of Dartmouth College, the librarian of the college writes: "The Association of American Colleges for the support of the school at Athens ought to comprise Dartmouth. It was expected that we should join it. A committee of the faculty was appointed to raise funds ($150 a year) to secure the membership of the college, but for some reason we have been given to understand that it would be an unwise thing to try to raise money for the purpose just now. Is there no one in your large and wealthy body that can enable...
...this conclusion had been drawn independently by so many differently circumstanced men in the Russian and German-Baltic provinces, from the general impressions which their recollections gave them, that there could be little doubt of its containing much truth-truth, too, of a startling character: the first boys at school disappear at the colleges, and those who are first in the colleges disappear in the world. I am not sure that a similar conclusion would not follow from a similar investigation into our own, as well as into English and German academical history, and that it would not be found...
...trustees of Philips Exeter Academy it was decided to change the pronunciation of Latin to the Roman or continental method now in use at all the important colleges. A few years ago when the pronounciation was changed here at Harvard, much dissatisfaction was at first expressed in the preparatory schools, as it was readily seen that the same change must be made there if the pupils were to be fitted for Harvard. The English method was held up as important on account of its analogy to the English language, enabling beginners to remember and spell Latin words more easily. However...