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...June Atlantic is up to the usual standard. The continued stories, A Roman Singer and In War Times, run through two more chapters each. Of the other articles there is one by Grant White, on the "Anatomizing of William Shakespeare," and on "Washington as it Should Be," by O. B. Frothingham. Dr. Holmes contributes a short notice of the late "Tom Appleton." The "Trail of the Sea Serpent" is illustrated by a few diagrams. The departments are well filled, making in all an interesting number...
...medical students at McGill University have been disgracing themselves. A professor raised the standard of his examinations and was snow-balled in the class-room till he was forced to leave...
...June Century is fully up to the standard of the other numbers which we have received. President Eliot discusses the question "What is a Liberal Education?" and tries to show that the sciences and English should be given leading places in the school and also in the college. An interesting article is Miss Fanny Storie's "Diary of an American Girl in Cairo during the War of 1882." The illustrated papers are "A French-American Seaport," which is an account of the Island of St. Pierre off Newfoundland; "Sailors' Snug Harbor," by Franklin H. North; "American Wild Animals...
...afford the best chance for improvement, it seems best to abolish compulsory work in freshman year, and this can only be done by a change in the work required from the preparatory schools. Raising the standard for admission would bring about several desirable results: It would bring an older class of men here from the schools; it would raise the scholarship both of the college and the school; it would give a year more for following out any particular branch a man may elect. Nearly every one feels how short a time three years is to accomplish anything definite...
Today the annual spring meeting of the H. A. A. takes place on the new track, on Holmes field. From the number of entries and the names of those who have entered, it seems assured that the meeting will be up to the standard of excellence which has characterized these meetings in the past. As the new track is in splendid condition, and is, moreover, considered very fast, good time may be expected in many of the events, and perhaps a broken record in one or two. We hope the meeting will pass off pleasantly and will not be marred...