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Bernhard Ten Brink's "History of English Literature," a work universally admitted by the best judges to be the most excellent and scholarly ever written on the subject, is to be reprinted in this country by Holt & Co., New York...
...instead of the following Thursday. The disputants are all '82 men. Affirmative, Messrs. Wait and Sewall; negative, Messrs. Hoar and Eaton. The question is: Resolved, That Webster's position as defined in his 7th of March speech was justifiable. As the disputants are all fine speakers, and the subject has been recently discussed in the papers, the meeting will be one of unusual interest...
...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...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: One more suggestion in regard to Memorial, if the subject is not exhausted: Many have been the complaints about the unpleasant surroundings at the late breakfast table. Every time a man is unfortunate enough to sleep past nine o'clock, he is obliged to breakfast amidst sweepings and dustings and scrubbings, whose general character is not appetizing, to say the least. He is surrounded by a bulwark of chairs piled upon the surrounding tables, and is serenaded by the clatter of plates and hardware. Now all this might be obviated with very little difficulty. Why not have...
...Princeton correspondent of the New York World writes: "Princeton men have never been very enthusiastic on the subject of boating, but more interest is taken in it now than for several seasons past. This is shown both by the number of candidates training for the crew, and by the amount of the subscriptions pledged in their support." Its letter from Pennsylvania University, dated last Thursday, says: "The boating outlook here is decidedly flattering, and there are between thirty and forty men in regular training. The general feeling seems to be favorable to the acceptance of all challenges, so confident does...