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The opening of University College, London, to women has created the need for a place of residence something like Girton and Newnham Halls at Cambridge. To meet this want a house is to be taken near the college by a number of ladies and gentlemen interested in the higher education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/17/1882 | See Source »

There is a movement to withdraw the Oxford-Cambridge race in future from the Thames and London crowds, and remove it to Henley. The professionals don't think much of the race. The New York Times says of the crews and the race : "They are university men, and their friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 4/15/1882 | See Source »

No statistics can show the actual advance in real scholarship under the new system over the old. But all acquainted with the results testify to this advance. The spirit of Harvard students has changed from the school-boy spirit to the scholarly spirit. This is fast coming true in conduct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ELECTIVE SYSTEM AT HARVARD. | 4/15/1882 | See Source »

EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The Saturday Review has on several occasions betrayed itself into pitiful errors, which from their very clumsiness increase the offence. Some years ago on the publication of "Plutarch's Morals," done into English by several hands and edited by Prof. Goodwin, the Saturday Review, without regard to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/12/1882 | See Source »

The Yale News states that there is some prospect of the formation of a canoe club at New Haven this spring, and in commending the project it says: "There are canoes enough in college, but any sport to be enjoyable must be companionable, and it is not strange that the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/12/1882 | See Source »