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...pile comes the Vassar Miscellany, which is always a welcome visitor. To be sure, it is, on the whole, rather heavy and unsatisfactory reading, but if one is judicious there is much to be found that is interesting. It seems strange that so little poetry appears in its columns; and we are forced to believe the editors discourage the would-be Brownings and Hemanses, though the one piece which appeared this fall was a very clever production. We would suggest an increase of "College Notes," and an attempt at typographical improvement...
Chaff, the new illustrated monthly from the University of Pennsylvania, has started off very well, and we return its Christmas greeting with interest. Its illustrations are, as a whole, very good, though we are inclined to think some of its jokes too local. However, it has abundant good nature, and combines fact, fiction, and fun in a very satisfactory manner...
...opening of the graduate courses to under-graduates is but another step toward the perfection of the elective system. On a par in importance with this are the new requirements in regard to the anticipation of a part or the whole of the freshman required course. Both of these changes tend toward the same result - the encouragement of specialties. According to these regulations, a man may anticipate his freshman required work and pursue one subject throughout his college course. The offer of "honors" to special students is also a new feature in the same general line as those just mentioned...
...details of her administration to the public scrutiny, and thus has invited public confidence. The result of this has been the numerous bequests that have been bestowed upon her during the past. Men of wealth feel greater readiness in endowing an institution of this sort than one where the whole government is kept a close secret. And the fact that Harvard is demanding more money is no indication of weakness, but, on the contrary, to quote the Advertiser, this demand is "but a gauge of its progress and an indication of its healthy expansion...
From the report of the treasurer it appears that the total amount of the separate trust funds held by him is $686,515.84, and the income from them this year is $31,367.19. The other funds of the college, which are invested as a whole, show a total this year of $4,511,861.59 a net increase over the previous year of $278,441.34. The annual income from this general capital is $233,352.88. The rate of income for 1882-83 is likely to be below five and a half per cent. The deficit for the year in the departments...