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Prof. Davis is giving a course of lectures on Physical Science, in Huntington Hall, Boston, for the benefit of teachers...
...case in every instance but one-that of pecuniary aid. Now recently, a movement has been started by the New York Local Committee attempting to raise a scholarship to help women through Harvard. Although the income of the amount proposed will be small, it will prove of incalculable benefit, helping deserving students, raising the standard of study in private schools, and increasing the attendance in the Annex. Much praise is due to the originators of this plan, and it is certainly a matter of infinite importance that this scholarship be followed by many more...
...cage will undoubtedly be of great benefit to the nine and would have been of much greater if it had been ready for use at the beginning of the term. As it was, the candidates were compelled to waste nearly a month, although Capt. Wagenhurst had his men at work in the gym as much as possible. The cage is not large enough to have first and third laid out, and so the men practise batting, base running and throwing from home to first and second principally without having a whole infield. Our great difficulty this year will...
...examinations of especial interest to the people of New York and very valuable to the parents whose daughters are educated in the private schools, for in order that candidates may be successfully prepared the principals of the schools are compelled to employ capable teachers, and thus the examinations benefit not only the candidates themselves, but also all the pupils attending the schools in which the candidates are prepared. They test the character of the school, and are a guarantee to the public of the quality of the instruction which the school provides...
...interesting. He reads from the Evangelists chapters selected so as to give the life of Christ in a chronological way. This idea is new and makes the conception of the life of Christ more real and vivid than is obtained from the usual reading of the New Testament. The benefit derived from a daily glimpse of a pure strong life is not to be doubted; and if a man aims only at self-culture, he could scarcely spend fifteen minutes of each day more profitably than at chapel...