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...Johns Hopkins University conducts five journals devoted to original investigation in various fields...
...Cambridge Tribune has published an interesting sketch of the life of Longfellow, collated from various sources, and comprising all the more notable tributes to the poet's memory that have appeared since his death. His career as student and as professor is well portrayed; the interesting letter by Rev. E. E. Hale on the subject of his connection with Harvard is given; and many pleasant anecdotes of his life in Cambridge appear here for the first time. The book is very readable...
...gone on for many years behind the hospital, where many really well-fought contests have daily taken place every spring between volunteer nines, among whom have appeared some very good players. Very many men like to play ball but are deterred from appearing as candidates for the 'Varsity for various reasons. From among these men, who will be sure enough to appear on the field if inducements to play are offered them, and from among the substitutes of the regular teams, it will be easy enough to organize a nine that will give good practice to the 'Varsity, and especially...
...course of general study, which can only be published with propriety in the miscellaneous collections of a periodical pamphlet. . . . It is to be the publick common-place of its contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects assigned for the college forensick disputations;" solutions of problems in mathematicks; discussions in natural history; "compositions in the classical languages;" "essays of a moral and religious import;" "a part of every number shall be unalienably devoted with religious sacredness to original poetry;" and finally, "under a miscellaneous head anything which...
...commission appointed to make a new distribution of the university and collegiate revenues of Oxford has finished its work. A "common university fund" has been established to which all the colleges must contribute. This will be applied to various uses, including a provision for pensions for professors. Buildings, tutors and scholarships are to be provided for students unattached to any of the colleges. Ordinary salaries of professors are to be pound900, of some only pound400. Those receiving the larger sum are required to give at least forty-two lectures a year, and to set examinations, etc. The function...