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...that come from the Clarendon, Edinburgh, and Glasgow presses. There is no reason why this plan, if carried into execution, should not succeed perfectly. Our scholars are as thorough as any, and the result of their efforts could not fail to be a text that would serve as a standard to colleges and schools. It is true that in Germany and England men spend their lives in comparing manuscripts, and think they have accomplished no small task if they can find some trustworthy authority for changing the spelling of a single word in a book whose text is acknowledged...
...most-important additions to the Library since December. The remaining fifteen include some more notes on authorities in American History, by Dr. Lodge; notes on "Gold and Silver," by Professor Dunbar, which give us the best works on the production and uses of gold, and on the double standard; a long notice on "Authorities for the History of the Empire and the Papacy, 1056-1122," by Mr. Emerton; one on some new theological works, by Professor Abbot; and another on "Puritans and Separatists," by Mr. Winsor. There is also a list of easy German reading; one of interesting volumes...
...prevalent among the men who come here, and which does not wholly disappear until the Annuals. Again, there would be less of cramming on special points, and of disregard for everything not likely to be on the examination-papers. And, finally, it would do something toward raising the standard of the fitting schools, and thus towards making it possible for Harvard to become, in the fullest sense of the word, a university...
...status quo of Cornell is lower than it has been at any preceding time.' - Review. The writer evidently thinks that the sine qua non, the multum in parvo, and the sine die still maintain their old standard, but we are unable to glean from the article whether the e pluribus unum and the et tu Brute of Cornell are on the rise or decline, although the reference to the `sub judice questions' may cover the ground." - Yale Courant...
...next Tuesday evening President McCosh, of Princeton, will deliver a lecture before the Inter-collegiate Association on "The importance of forming Associations among American Colleges to raise the Standard of Scholarship"; and Colonel T. W. Higginson will deliver an address on the history, objects, and needs of the Association. For four years this Association has been before the public, and every year it has met with less favor than it received the year before. As we have had occasion to show, the examinations cover less ground than do our examinations for second-year honors; so that the Association offers only...