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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...
With reference to the threats of the governor, mentioned in an editorial, the Transcript says: "Here the governor's malice is as ignorant as it is impotent. The State and college were divorced long ago; it has no more exemption from taxation than every other college has, and pays taxes on nearly a million and a half dollars' worth of real estate in this city the same as any other corporation. There is no way for Gov. Butler to begin to make the college pay in loss of money for refusing the degree. The loss of money to be apprehended...
...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...
...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...