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Members of the Scientific School were out surveying the height of Memorial yesterday...
...young ladies' boarding school not more than thirty miles distant, a second spring recess of a week is given in May to allow the young ladies to obtain new spring and summer outfits...
...brushed up on each side in the form of a pigeon-wing, and his store clothes on, he was immediately struck by the appearance of Asphyxia, and the only thing he could think of was the Rollo books which he had found a few years before in the Sunday School library of his native town, Saug Centre. He began to wonder if the young gentleman whom Mrs. De Sorosis had promised to introduce him to would wear pantalets, little white waists and velveteen coats, that being the costume Rollo was wont to appear in on Sundays at home...
...believe the plan, recently introduced at the University of Michigan, at Bowdoin, and at some other colleges, of admitting students upon the presentation of a diploma from any duly approved preparatory school, has been found to be very successful and satisfactory in its workings. It manifestly does away with many of the terrors and well known disadvantages of the ordinary entrance examination; and any means of reforming the evils of the present examination system is to be welcomed. It is to be hoped that Harvard will soon see her way to adoption, wholly or in part, of this or some...
...appropriation of $95,000,000 has been recommended to aid public school education...