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...Senate committee on commerce has added $1,000,000 for the reclamation of the Potomac flats to the river and harbor bill. The Senate bids fair to increase the total appropriation of the river and harbor bill to more than $20,000,000. The House will probably concur. The thirst for the surplus is by no means assuaged...
...special meeting of the board of overseers was held yesterday forenoon, Hon. E. R. Hoar presiding. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows in the changes regarding degrees; also, in appointing Josiah Royce instructor in philosophy for the current year. The vote of the president and fellows to establish a professorship of veterinary medicine, was laid on the table for future consideration, and the appointment of Henry Jacob Bigelow, M. D., emeritus professor of surgery, in consideration of his many valuable services to the medical school during the past 33 years, was referred to Messrs. Hodges, Parker...
...importance through his ability as a teacher and his scientific reputation. It has been urgently represented to the council that the welfare of biological studies at Cambridge demands that Mr. Balfour's department should be placed on a recognized and less precarious footing, and in this view the council concur. They accordingly recommend that there shall be established in the university a professorship of animal morphology, at a stipend of Pound 300 a year, to terminate with the tenure of office of the first professor elected, unless the university decide that the professorship shall be continued, the professor...
...that it is too much, and cases occur where the health breaks down under the mental pressure. One cause of this can be found to lie, not so much in the quantity of work as in the regularity and systematic way in which it is performed. Many high authorities concur in the opinion that an almost unlimited amount of mental work may be done by the brain provided it is performed at regular hours, and proper care is taken of the body...
...income of which shall ultimately be used for the medical education of women. The following appointments were confirmed: Gen. Francis A. Walker, university lecturer on the resources of the United States; Alexander McKenzie, D. D., lecturer on biblical theology; G. Stanley Hall, lecturer on pedagogy. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows in their vote authorizing the academic council to accept a year of satisfactory study in Europe in lieu of such a year passed in residence here...