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...degree, on the ground that such an accomplishment is not part of a liberal education. Waiving the objection, although it can apply with equal force to some courses already in the curriculum, we think that a sufficient number of men would take it as an extra to warrant the experiment. The expense, which in the minds of the authorities is the really strong argument against it, need not be great; for an expert could be hired for a sum not very large to give instruction, say, three hours a week, which would probably be sufficient...
...another column we print a list of topics which will form the subjects of a series of lectures soon to be delivered under the auspices of the Massachusetts Tariff Reform League. The names of the lecturers warrant us in the belief that this course of lectures will be one of great interest, not only to the business men of Boston, for whom the course is especially designed, but also for all who are interested in the study of Political Economy. The lectures to be delivered by Professor Sumner, of Yale, and by Dr. Taussig, of our own political economy department...
...foot ball and other agitations of this year and last have been, the committee thought, the only objects of general enough interest to warrant a conference, and these have been delegated to a special committee. For this reason the committee of conference have not felt warranted in holding a meeting this year. About three weeks before the Christmas recess, however, it occurred to the committee to have a conference with the students for the purpose of discussing in the first place, as to whether such a committee is of any use, the advisability of having...
...reasoning which leads the delegates to their conclusion is, in brief: that at the close of the game, the score was 6 points to 4 in Yale's favor: that this result would have given Yale the championship except for a technicality. The reasoning is good, but does not warrant their conclusion, viz: that the game was won fairly. No one will deny that Yale was ahead at the close of the game, and such a letter will throw no new light upon the point. If it were merely a question whether the championship should be withheld from where...
...university at Stockholm has established a professorship of mathematics expressly for a woman. This is Mrs. Dr. Sophie Kowalevski, whose paper on partial differential equations was reorganized as sufficiently important to warrant the establishment of a chair...