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...following points: On the injury that would be done to the university as a place of education, particularly as tending to do away with the requirement of residence as a condition for the degree; as necessitating a change in the methods and subject of the examination to suit a new class of female students; on the conviction that a "higher education" of women, secured under conditions similar to that of men, would "endanger their health and make them unfit for the duties of family life;" on the danger to which "future mothers and teachers of our race would be exposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPPOSITION TO WOMEN AT OXFORD. | 5/1/1884 | See Source »

...first step in the conversion of Harvard from a conventional American college into a university of originality of plan and broad scope. Ever since that system was adopted the energies of this institution have been largely devoted to an adjustment of the several parts of the old system to suit the changed conditions of the new. What is to be the next great change in this process of growth is somewhat doubtful. The entire relegation of the arguer part of the work of the freshman year to the preparatory schools is avowedly one of these changes, but one which will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/20/1884 | See Source »

...commission which has been taking testimony in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, relative to the value of Cornell University lands, in the suit to break the will of Jennie McCraw-Fiske, shows that the university has a good deal of land out there, though the cash value of the timber on it is not tremendous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/23/1884 | See Source »

...founded on the blindest faith in the superiority of Harvard's position. This faith we cannot share in. We do not see any reason why it will be found impossible for Princeton, who expresses herself in favor of reasonable reforms and restrictions in athletics to adopt such reforms to suit her own needs and then arrive at a satisfactory convention with Yale and Brown by which inter-collegiate athletics can be continued at these colleges under reasonable restrictions, and all this without entering into the new agreement with Harvard and the rural colleges. In this event we see no outcome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/16/1884 | See Source »

...damages resulting from the collision near Charleston, Ind. The club will be paid as an organization $1,200, $450 for expenses and $750 for losses. Bowen, who had his nose and an arm broken, will get $1000. Cutten and Sandford, who were bruised will receive $200 each. The suit against the road has been withdrawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1884 | See Source »

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