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...experience of the past two years has shown the impossibility of conducting the Anderson School upon the plan originally intended. The Trustees find themselves at the end of the means at their disposal. To enable them to carry on the school, it is proposed to charge a fee of fifty dollars for the season, and they hope that a sufficient number of pupils can be secured to warrant them in going on. Even with the proposed charges there will be a considerable deficit (as was the case last year) to be met by the friends of the Penikese School...
...Collegian comes from Cornell, - not Cornell, Ithaca, but Cornell College, Iowa, - and it is one of the most remarkable of all the remarkable Western papers that reach us. In the exchange column we find that a strange system of orthography is in vogue in Iowa. The Collegian says: "We prise none of our Exchanges more than The Tripod...
...Rugby Meteor of March 29 we find an account of Athletics at Rugby. The record of the meeting held on March 16 and 17 is much better than anything which either our Association or any College Association in this country can show...
...rooms three or four days before a debate; if no motion is posted, the standing committee has to provide a subject; no written speeches can be delivered. I have not the report of the Oxford Union, but in Cambridge the debates seem quite well attended; I did not find less than seventy-seven who voted on any motion, and there were over a hundred present at most of the meetings. There is a very interesting list of the additions made to the Library during the last year and of the periodicals taken by the Society, which shows that the members...
...find that "there are five College edifices belonging to Harvard University: Harvard Hall, built in 1765, and standing on the site of old Harvard, which was burnt in 1764; Massachusetts Hall, built in 1720; Hollis Hall, built in 1763; Holden Chapel, built in 1745; College House, a wooden building, 1770; and Stoughton Hall, built in 1698. . . . . During this summer, a bath was erected at brick-wharf for the benefit of the students of the University. It was made under the superintendence of Thomas Brattle, Esquire, and happily unites ornament with utility...