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...artists. So amusing to hear Nillson, fresh from the Tower scene, ask in our prosaic English for some pins for her sash. Another, too, lamenting in heart-rending tones the fate of Radames, and then with her back to the audience pouting at us in the wings in regular school-girl fashion, because she had soiled her hands on the dusty scenery. And then the rage of a Signor who was driven from the stage to give room for an encore...
...JOHN GREEN, late lecturer on torts and criminal law at the Harvard Law School, has been elected acting dean of the School of Law of Boston University. - Advertiser...
PROFESSOR WASHBURN, in a recent lecture to the students in the Law School, gave a number of suggestions of value to those intending to enter that profession. We can notice but a few of the leading ones. In referring to the necessary qualifications of those intending to become lawyers, he said, "His position implies fair natural powers, trained intellect, good common-sense, habits of thought and reflection, diligence of research and preparation, strict integrity and honorable purpose." Such is the foundation for one who would be a successful lawyer. The prevailing idea that success is measured by the amount...
Thus you perceive that the programme of secondary instruction is the same for all France. Before, however, making you acquainted with this programme, let me first point out one peculiarity. In your country there is a natural transition from the common schools to the high schools, and from these last to the colleges. Scholars who wish to make their course complete, generally follow through the grades of these schools. They rise, insensibly, by examinations, from the primary school to college. With us there is nothing similar. Primary instruction is enclosed within an impassable barrier. The scholar who goes...
Professors of secondary instruction are found usually among the scholars of the superior normal school, intended specially to form professors. There is a normal school of letters, and one of sciences. Every year there is an assembly of candidates who intend to devote themselves to teaching. A person to be able to present himself must not be over twenty-one years of age. But a limited number are received. Those who are admitted remain three years in the school, at the end of which time they have the position of professor in the University. The degree of licencie, however, gives...