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...catalogue of this famous school is particularly interesting this year, owing to the great change that has lately been made in the course of studies. The object of this change is to meet the new requirements at Harvard; and as it was found to be impossible to perform the additional work in the already crowded three-year course, another year, called the "Preparatory," has been added...
...Hale scholarship, with an income of one hundred and forty dollars, and the Gordon scholarship of seventy dollars, have lately been founded, thus making, with the Bancroft, three in the Academy. The school seems to be in a prosperous condition, as one hundred and sixty-eight students are named in the catalogue...
...College course. He was a member of the Hasty Pudding and Porcellian Clubs; and as one of his classmates has said, all that distinguished him while in college, from his fellows, was his knowledge of literature and his skill in boxing. As soon as he entered the Law School he attracted general attention by his industry and knowledge. Some time after he became a practising lawyer he was persuaded, much against his inclination, to enter politics, and since then his fame, which began with his oration on the Fourth of July, 1845, has spread over our own country and Europe...
...higher and a more systematic mode of thought and study, and the required studies of the first year are made as general as possible, to enable one to choose the course of study which suits him best. There are very few, if any, fitting schools in which all branches are taught as well as in a university like Harvard. A man may come to college with the impression that he is fitted for a mathematical course of study, because he was, perhaps, under a good instructor in Arithmetic, and stood well in his class. But this does not prove conclusively...
...Yale University Crew consists of Messrs. Cook and Fowler, '76; Kennedy, Nixon, Wood, Brownell, S. S. S. And we can take no men from our Law School...