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...catalogue of a Paris school for young ladies announces that they have pupils from various parts of the United States and some parts of Ohio...
...country, but when a day of national observance, like Washington's Birthday or Memorial Day, comes around, it certainly looks as if we too might take part in the observances which are the privilege of the humblest in the land. The example of a certain professor in the Law School, who notified his sections that he would not lecture Tuesday, as it was a legal holiday, is commendable...
...must be an astonishing reflection to the younger generation of Englishmen that the famous university men of fifty years ago, whom they constantly hear praised, had not the smallest tincture of science, The Oxford men - Newman, Manning and Arnold - knew nothing of it. The Cambridge man, Darwin, when at school, which was a principal feeder of Cambridge, heard his pursuits described by the head master as the cultivation of 'stinks' - which, indeed, became the popular university term for them." - [St. James' Gazette...
...letter to the N. Y. Times, T. W. Ludlow writes: "The cordial co-operation of so many of our principal colleges in the foundation of the American school to be opened at Athens next autumn, is a matter of great satisfaction both to the school committee and to the Archaeological Institute. This co-operation seems to indicate a feeling of mutual fellowship and sympathy, which is, perhaps, of recent growth among our institutions of higher learning - a feeling which cannot but bear good fruit in the future. Although the membership of the institute has increased largely throughout the country during...
...suggested in a Southern journal that a better plan than lies in compulsory education is to employ excellent teachers and to pay them, in addition to their salaries, a percentage on every unwilling or careless child whom they are able to coax into school. It is further suggested that a discount should be imposed on them for every child dropping out of the school, and that their salaries should be discontinued if they fail to keep up their schools...