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...ENGLAND COLLEGES.- The annual convention of delegates from the college faculties of Southern New England met recently at Amherst. The subject discussed was the selection of physics and chemistry to the college curriculum: It was generally agreed that to demand any preparation in the preparatory schools in these branches inadvisable, at least for the present. Professors Trowbridge and Cook represented Harvard in the convention...
...October "Atlantic" is one of unusual interest. Among the articles of especial worth is a continuation of "In War Times" by Dr. Weir Mitchell, a powerful description of the Battle of Lake George by Francis Parkman, the story of condition of the Southern Colleges and schools, and articles on an "English Literary Cousin," a "Bourgeois Family," the "Migrations of the gods," etc. There are poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Celia Thaxter and Augustus M. Lord. The departments are up to the usual standard...
...pleasure to the lecture on the civil war. The lecturer opened his discourse with an elaborate account of the plan of campaign and its merits and defects. General Mead was in command of the army of the Potomac with about 90,000 men, and General Butler was in the southern part of Virginia with a smaller force. The supreme command of the federal forces and movements was in the hands of Gen. Grant. The plan devised was for Grant, with the army of the Potomac to push Lee backward and hold his attention while Butler should slip in and capture...
...also wanted is that the Americans should cater a little more to foreign peculiarities when manufacturing for export. Moreover, New England should try and take the place of the fine English goods which would not then have to be imported. The coarser work should be relegated to the southern mills now springing up. In this way there would be no internal competition between the sections and the money for imports would be saved...
...nine on Saturday, by a score of 10 to 5. The base running of Yale was very fine. The Athletics made 10 safe hits from Booth's delivery, while Yale made but 5, with a total of 6 from Atkinson.-The following men composed the Yale nine: Booth p., Southern c., Brigham 1st b., Terry 2d b., Hopkins 3d b., Oliver s. s., Hickox l. f., Atwood c, f., McKee...