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...Century will have a special design for its cover made by Elihu Vedder, and one of Kruell's finest pieces of engraved work in a portrait of James Russell Lowell...
...currently reported that very different regulations will be in force next year in regard to unmatriculated students. They will be required to attend prayers, recitations and examinations like undergraduates, and will be subject to all the general rules of the collegiate department. This will probably cause a stampede of special students to the law and scientific schools...
...meeting of the overseers on Wednesday the question of admitting women to the Harvard Medical School was discussed and voted upon. A report on the subject was presented from a special committee, embodying the views of the faculty of the school: "The faculty," says the Advertiser's report of the meeting, "while making no opposition to the medical education of women in general, decidedly oppose it in the Harvard Medical School. The school, they say, was founded for the medical education of men, and has been endowed and sustained for that purpose-a purpose which would be seriously perverted...
...some only pound400. Those receiving the larger sum are required to give at least forty-two lectures a year, and to set examinations, etc. The function of the professors is proclaimed to be teaching rather than research. Scholarships are to be obtained as before by competition; but a special fund is to be created for poor students. "These changes," says the Spectator, "are not revolutionary, but they are considerable, and it is of necessity impossible to criticise them, except in the light of future experience...
...From our Special Correspondent...