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Professor Goodwin has formally accepted the directorship for next year of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This will result in his absence from the college next year; therefore his courses in Greek will probably be taught by Professor White, while Professor Dyer and Mr. Croswell will take the latter's place. Some new instructor will then have to be appointed as instructor of Freshman Greek...
Philip Walker of Paris, a member of the American electrical commission, recently created a knight of the Legion of Honor, offers a prize of $20 to any member of the senior class of the Chandler Scientific School at Dartmouth, for the best thesis on any subject in the department of physics...
...other. Over and against these privileges, place the fact that her most intimate friend lives a mile or two away, and that, at the end of a year, she is acquainted with but four or five of her fellow-students, and one fears that she is losing irrevocably the school-girl good times that should be among the happiest memories of her later life. Nor does she have those advantages of Cambridge society, which, at first thought, we should expect from her residence in the rare old town. This, however, is but the inevitable separation of 'town and gown...
...sufficient evidence that this problem is present before the authorities-that is, "that ampler provision is required for teaching in a great number of more recondite subjects." (3) "Something should be done to enable the university to help original research." To a certain extent the scheme of an American school at Athens, in which Harvard has so much interest at present, may be said to be a move towards the solution of this problem. But it is doubtful whether improvement is so much needed in this direction as in what is comparatively the elementary portion of the college work...
...French Senate, Saturday, discussing compulsory education, rejected, by a vote of 167 to 123, an amendment by M. Jules Simon, requiring school-masters to teach their pupils duty toward God and the country...