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President Eliot said he was opposed to any admission to the bar, except after public examination, and that he thought no law school needed special privileges in regard to the admission of its students. He also considered, as in the English civil service, not only the learning of the candidate, but his character and antecedents, should be inquired into. This of course means that every person presenting himself to the bar for examination be required to bring a certificate of good moral character...
...have any knowledge. Professors Gray, Whitney, Gibbs, Lovering, Cooke, Shaler, Trowbridge, and Jackson are all at work in their several departments making scientific researches, and writing up the results they have obtained. Motley has been elected a member of the French Academy; Professor Newcomb, a graduate of our Scientific School, has received honors from four foreign societies; while Dr. Gould, another astronomer, has been elected a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg...
...some humorous touches in it which we cannot satisfactorily explain. For instance, we find on page twelve an apparent reference to our modern games with forfeits. "A student who fails to do this forfeits her right to washing for the week." Was that a joke practised in the school or convent where we are led to think that this work originated? Certainly, if anything more than a joke, it points to a drought or a peculiar state of civilization. In another place we see evidence of the influence of some ancient Lister: "Valuables may at any time be deposited with...
...such minute directions that it would be insulting to their age to suppose that the girls at this institution were more than nine or ten years old; and we recommend the book as a curiosity, and as containing some useful hints to all who are interested in the primary-school system and Kindergartens of our country...
...MACVANE of '73, formerly of the Roxbury Latin School, is to have the required course in Political Economy of Sophomore year...