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...Recipients of Degrees and Distinctions; the second with the University and its Departments; the third with Radcliffe College (which appears in the catalogue for the first time); and the fourth containing a complete directory and index. These changes, which are an infinite improvement over the old arrangement, are largely due to Professor James M. Peirce, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who himself edited the reports under the charge of the Faculty...
...results of his recent investigations of coral growths about the Fiji Islands. Mr. Agassiz took as his subject, "The Present State of the Theories of the Formation of Coral Reefs," and said in part: The theory of Darwin was that the formation of attols or coral barrier reefs was due to the subsidence of the district where they are situated. Dana's observations seemed greatly to strengthen the theory and its very simplicity gained it popularity. The first tangible objection to the theory was found in 1881 when a coral reef twenty-five fathoms deep was discovered off Yucatan...
...Cercle. M. Doumic has justified at Harvard the reputation as a keen and sympathetic critic which preceded him to this country, and his contribution is among the more important of the year. To him who rendered it possible for the Cercle to thus benefit the University thanks are due, and the success of this year augurs well for that of the lectureship in years to come...
Romanticism brought into French literature fine sensibility and a feeling for art and for history. Its excesses and faults are due to the fact that this was a period of crisis. This was a crisis during which classic realism was developing into modern realism...
...WINTHROP PLATNER.ENGLISH 8.- A report on Thackeray is due on Thursday, March...