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...proposed to raise among the pupils and friends of the late Rev. Dr. James Walker, President of Harvard University, the sum of from five thousand to ten thousand dollars to endow a scholarship in that University, and to provide a suitable memorial of him in Memorial Hall. Considerable subscriptions have already been made to the fund. Mr. John A. Lowell, of Boston, heads the committee, and has such associates as Charles W. Eliot, Phillips Brooks, Francis E. Parker, and Henry W. Foote. The New York members of the committee are Samuel Osgood, Joseph H. Choate, and James C. Custer...
...CHANGE is to be made in the classification of the studies for next year, and Professor James's course, Natural History 2, will be found hereafter among the electives in philosophy. The mere transfer of the elective from one place to another in the Catalogue of course is of no importance; but the fact that the change will allow this course to count for honors in philosophy is very important. Every one who has tried to keep posted on the philosophical speculations of the day knows how important it is to have a knowledge as complete as possible...
...RUMOR has latterly prevailed to a considerable extent among undergraduates, that the cataloguing of books at the Library was to be abandoned henceforth, and that the requisite information was to be given by persons suitably qualified for the purpose. We have authority for stating that this report is signally deficient in all those essential characteristics which distinguish mere hearsay from accredited fact. We learn, however, that this plan was proposed to the Library Council, and was not approved; but that there will probably be some simplification and abbreviation in the present system of card catalogue. The numerous and vigorous advocates...
...Princetonian has completed its first volume, and a new board of editors has been installed. From the first, the Princetonian has been among the very best college papers. Confining itself strictly to subjects taken from college life, the paper has been bright, newsy, and, in tone, manly. There has been a tendency to assume a complete knowledge, on the part of the readers, of the matters discussed in the editorial columns, and the result is, that after reading a long editorial, one has not the faintest idea what is the subject under discussion. As cases in point we note...
...propound the following problem (no one but Harvard need send in a solution). If in nine years Cornell has reached her present height among American institutions of learning, what, at the present rate of advancement, will be her rank when she is - say, two hundred and fifty years old?" - Cornell Review...