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Lecture by Prof. C. A. Young before the N. H. Society. Subject, "Meteors and Comets...
...employed in an institution that claims to be a university. It is well that a man's work be reported, in some form, as good, fair or bad; but it is impossible for the ordinary mind to conceive how one student acquires eighty-three per cent. of a subject, and another eighty-four. It must require wonderful microscopy of discrimination to determine which student deserves the one per cent. It will not be long before this old-time spelling-school way of informing a man that he stands "one higher" than his classmate will have been consigned to oblivion, together...
...students' government at the Illinois Industrial, Champaign, Ill., is a novelty. The members of three governmental departments, executive, judicial and legislative, are chosen by the students. The actions of the students are entirely subject to the control of this government. A paid marshal is employed, invested with the power to arrest; two justices with the power to try, and two attorneys with the power to prosecute. A senate, composed of twenty-one members enacts the necessary laws. Such an institution creates an air of independence, a feeling of responsibility, and serves as an excellent school. - [Academia...
...weather during the past few days has given the bashful-in-society young man a good subject for conversation...
Oscar Wilde lectures in the Music Hall, Boston, on Tuesday evening. Subject, "The English Renaissance...