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...York Tribune says the students of the Harvard annex have shown a tendency toward the traditional classical curriculum and not toward science. All the courses in Greek were taken by the female students last year. The classes were fed by the best private and high schools. The professors marked the young women on the same scale with the young men, and have expressed great satisfaction with their progress. Twenty young women, who passed the preliminary examinations last June to the regular course of four years, are expecting to take the final examination next June. The girls have all worked hard...
...candor and lucidity, presenting, we think, a complete vindication of Harvard's policy in this respect. The main points in his argument are these : "Harvard College is really more than a college; it is a college plus a body of preparatory schools. Harvard has the good fortune to be fed by sources which are quick to respond to any advance in her requirements, whether in methods or in quantity." Thus she is secured to a large extent in her supply of students, and is therefore enabled to steadily raise her demands and receives none but the most thoroughly-prepared candidates...
...value, so that it yields annually in rents $800,000, and it is constantly growing more productive. The college grounds contain 41 acres, with about 40 distinct buildings for the use of the pupils, including a chapel, dormitories and laboratories. More than one thousand orphans are here instructed, fed, clothed and cared for in every particular by the various officers of the college. They are taken at the early age of six years, some of them ignorant of the alphabet, and are kept under "tutors and governors" for eight years; then if suitable places can be found are apprenticed...
They say an alligator is incapable of nausea. At least they fed one on bread made by a Vassar College girl and his jaws were strong enough to bite it and it did not make him sick.-[Post...
...decide. But whatever may come, may we never see the day when the Memorial menu presents to the famished student "sunflower saute aux champignons," "poppy frite aux petits pois," "lily a la maitre d'hotel." AEsthetic costumes may be adopted at Harvard, but the divine flame can never be fed by dishes whose chief virtue is ethereality...