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...next theme in English 5 is due next Friday. Subject like that of the last one on any current topic. Another theme due a week from next Friday will have as its subject any suggestion in regard to the improvement of the university, either in its government or in the conduct of its students...
...Current news from a Western college can hardly excite much interest in the East. Until we can send a foot-ball or base-ball team East that can meet some of the college league teams with some success, we do not expect that much importance will be attached to our athletic enterprises. It seems probable, however, that the points of difference in student customs between a large Western university like Michigan and a large Eastern one like Harvard would prove entertaining to the readers of the HERALD...
Says the Boston Journal, in its Current Notes : "The statement of President Eliot of Harvard that beneficiary aid to students preparing for the ministry has a deleterious influence upon the clerical profession continues to excite much comment. A few agree with President Eliot in thinking that scholarships are only a species of almsgiving, but the majority seem to take a wider view, believing that as aid to education has become necessary in the common schools, it does not injure the ministry or other professions to extend that aid by college scholarships and private assistance...
...current odds on the English 'Varsity boat race that may be quoted at this early stage rarely represent the comparative merits of the crews. "Six to four an Oxford" is the cry, but a visit to Ely will find the Cantabs very well pleased with their prospects. It is not too much to say that many are decidedly "sweet" on the crew. - [N. Y. Herald...
...current Nation contains a very sensible article on the higher education of women, which cannot fail to interest all students who look upon this question with impartial eyes. For however we may attempt to disguise the fact, the question is becoming more and more a vital one for educational institutions. The recent attempt to introduce women into Columbia College is but one of the many indications of the feeling at present pervading the country Although we cannot believe that the experiments at Ann Arbor and Cornell have as yet received sufficient trial to prove the ultimate success of a system...