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...receipt of a copy of the announcement of the Correspondence University, which contains the courses in instruction and a long list of experienced instructors. The purpose of the University "is to enable students to receive at their homes systematic instruction at a very moderate expense," in all subjects which can be taught by correspondence, and also to supplement the work of other institutions of learning by instructing persons who are unable to attend them. The instructors have been selected without regard to the institutions with which they have been connected ; but merely for their special qualifications. Every student will...
...University will be prepared to instruct students in Agriculture, Botany, Drawing, Engineering, Music, Physiology and Zoology, Physics, Mathematics and Languages. Among the list of instructors in Mathematics we find the names of Professor Benjamin Williamson and Thomas Muir, formerly connected with the universities of London and Glasgow. Professors Flagg and Harkness have charge of the classical course. Mr. Flagg was tutor in Greek at Harvard for four years, and is at present connected with Cornell University. Professor Appleton of Harvard, '64, heads the list of instructors in German, among whom is Prof. Horatio S. White, Harvard '73, and at present...
...Substitute the following for the latter part. The four annual aggregates of each member of the graduating class are reduced to a uniform standard and combined to form a final rank-list, called the General Scale...
...failed to obtain better than last place, and it was always a pleasure to feel that unless under the most adverse circumstances the other three colleges could count on a better place. Now however either Yale, Princeton or Harvard will be obliged to feel the mortification of tailing the list, and this consideration is no mean incentive for hard work. We heartily trust that this view of the matter may have all due effect upon our team and that they will do their best to keep us from this hitherto almost unattainable position...
...Harvard are always well received and interesting. The few which have been given this year are by no means exceptions. We think the success of the lectures held in the past ought to inspire new life into some of the societies whose only claim to success is the long list of members which appear yearly in the Index. If some of these societies would only show more activity in procuring for us lecturers of well known reputation and standing, we feel sure they would deserve and would receive the hearty support of the college. Success in the past should warrant...