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...Butler. It must be confessed that they have increased the honor attaching to a LL. D., when coming from Harvard. The rule they have now tacitly laid down will impel the board hereafter to critically dissect the claims of future governors to the degree Gen. Butler has been refused. - [Transcript...
...Transcript has the following ponderous joke: "It appears that his excellency's prodding of the Harvard Medical School is to find out whether the Harvard 'LL. D.' is worth accepting...
...accordance with Dr. McCosh's suggestion, a department of philosophy is soon to be established, with him at its head. There are to be four or five other professors in the new school. The presidency of Princeton is the prize now awaiting some first-class scholar and educator. - [Transcript...
...pair of students in Columbia College have had a duel. Thank the stars and the faculty, Harvard students have never got so low as that. - [Transcript...
...writer in the Portland Transcript, commenting on the subject of elective studies in colleges, which as he declares is "one of the live issues of the day," says: "When the student is allowed to select his studies, some care should be taken to prevent him from choosing studies that he is incapable of pursuing successfully, and he should further be required to arrange the work of his whole course in such a way that the successive years should bear some logical relation to one another. The first of these precautions is taken to some extent at Harvard, but the second...