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...Course 3 the discussion of practical economic questions under Professor Laughlin will be of the greatest advantage to any who wish to become thorough practical students of economic subjects. Mr. Taussig will conduct the course on the tariff of the United States, of which he has made a special study. The other courses deal with the economic history of Europe, land tenures in England, Ireland, France and Germany, and the financial systems of France, England, Germany and the United States. Harvard will thus present a more extended course of study in Political Economy than is given by any other university...
...Yale men will have a special train on Saturday if two hundred will subscribe...
...special meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College, held yesterday at No. 70 Water street, Boston, the following appointments, made at previous meetings of the president and fellows, were confirmed: George H. Palmer, A. M., as Professor of Philosophy; James B. Greenough, A. B., as Professor of Latin; Clement L. Smith, A. M., as Professor of Latin; Charles A. Brackett, D. M. D., as Professor of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics; Arthur Searle, A. M., as Assistant Professor of Astronomy for five years, from June 1, 1883; and James L. Laughlin, Ph. D., as Assistant Professor of Political Economy...
...Dorr as usual took the audience by storm, and his "Calliope" was received with even greater enthusiasm. Mr. Dunham's piano solo met with an appreciative reception. With the single exception of the spiritless rendering of the college songs, the concert may be said to have been one of special excellence. After the concert there was dancing in Memorial Hall...
...groups should become elective; that a general and very strict preparatory examination should be held for admission to the four years' course, and that this examination should have reference to the course in general, like the examination for entrance into the freshman class in college; that, unless under special circumstances, no young woman should be admitted to such entrance examination before she has attained the age of eighteen years; that every student so admitted should be entirely free as to where and how to pursue her studies, whether in some school, private or public, or at home, or under...