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...subject of Dr. Sargent's lecture this afternoon is, "The Blood - the Condition of Vitality...
...resolved that insomuch as the gentleman concerned in the affair of last Sunday had voluntarily withdrawn from the hall, the board of directors would take no action with regard to him. Also that a committee of two be appointed to investigate the whole affair, and take such action, subject to the approval of the board, as seems...
Concerning the disposal of Lord Ashburnham's famous collection of manuscripts now offered for sale, the Oxford Magazine thinks that "the subject is one on which Oxford ought to have an opinion and to express it. Surely it would be misplaced parsimony to allow such a mine of wealth for the scholar and antiquary to pass into the hands of Germany or America...
...correspondent on the scholarship question has erred to the extent that he has misinterpreted the remarks made by us in reference to scholarships reserved for the students of divinity as intended to apply to all scholarships. What our opinions are on the general subject of scholarships is entirely foreign to the question discussed in the editorial referred to. Our intention was to inveigh against the custom of giving scholarships which are limited, to a greater or less extent, to the use of students studying for some particular profession. We selected the clerical profession, as this profession is the one generally...
...HERALD says that a scholarship is not received without "a sacrifice of personal independence." If there were no scholarships many a man must restrain that desire - that longing in some fostered even from childhood - to make himself more fully a man; he must remain the subject of adverse circumstances, and if he enter a profession he must enter it handicapped by those to whom fortune has given an education without the "sting" of accepting a scholarship. If the privilege of a scholarship is open to the same man he can, perhaps, get a college education which otherwise he could...