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...forward to with so much interest by the scientific world. The first number fully comes up to all expectations, both as regards typography and matter. The journal has a very artistic heading designed by Mr. C. H. Moore of Harvard, and is well printed on excellent paper, of convenient shape and size. Among the longer articles we notice contributions by Prof. Asa Gray, Mr. E. H. Hall and Samuel Kneeland. A very interesting letter on a "Singular Meteoric Phenomenon," witnessed from the deck of the Alaska, is illustrated by excellent diagrams. One of the most valuable features of the journal...
...more experienced "foreign cousins." The stamp of the early doctrines gained in their university life is very manifest in the life work of many an illustrious statesman or literrateur, who passed his college years in some intellectual centre, such as Oxford or Heidelberg. Can we sincerely say that men shape their modes of thought in any lasting form while at Harvard? I doubt if traces of a student's four years' training are ever distinct enough to be discovered ten years after he leaves Cambridge. The man who possesses the most original mind by nature receives none of those impulses...
Accompanying the semi-annuals another affliction visits the college in the shape of those well-known vendors of Havana cigars. The methods of these vagabonds and imposters are familiar to most men, who need not be warned against their thieving deceptions, but there are doubtless a number of freshmen and others whom it may be well to warn. For the benefit of these we will say that if any picturesque looking foreigners who speak nothing but Espanol or French call upon you with a delightful tale of having just arrived in Boston from Havana on a ship with fine cigars...
...advocates of the higher education of women have now placed their movement upon Columbia College in a thoroughly practical shape. They ask not for co-education and not necessarily for the slightest association between the students now in Columbia and the young women who may wish to take advantage of its educational facilities. They merely ask that the trustees shall consider how best to open the many and great benefits of education in Columbia College to such women as may be properly qualified to receive them by admission to lectures and examinations. Practically this has already been done...
...several years past a change has been gradually occurring in physical training at Harvard. As has been shown before, the old system developed simply a few champions, and the little action of the faculty was in the shape of arbitrary rules, passed to render sports subservient to study. Under the new system, commenced with the introduction of Dr. Sargent, the faculty recognized the necessity of exercise holding a place beside study, and to that end have appointed a committee on athletics, who have a general supervision over all forms of exercise. The watchword of the old system was arbitrary prohibition...