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PROF. SIMON NEWCOMB is to be our lecturer on Political Economy...
...circular for the new year is almost ready. The subjects in mathematics for the contest of 1879 will be analytical geometry and calculus; Professors Simon Newcomb, P. S. Michie, and A. Hall will examine the competitors. In Greek, the "Panegyricus" of Isocrates, and the "Iphigenia in Tauris" of Euripides, will be required; also analysis of verb forms, use of moods and tenses. Familiarity with Greek prose composition with accents, and with the words and constructions used in the "Panegyricus," is expected. Professors Charlton T. Lewis, A. Harkness, and Henry Drisler will be examiners. The remaining committees will report soon...
...which certainly few undergraduates have any knowledge. Professors Gray, Whitney, Gibbs, Lovering, Cooke, Shaler, Trowbridge, and Jackson are all at work in their several departments making scientific researches, and writing up the results they have obtained. Motley has been elected a member of the French Academy; Professor Newcomb, a graduate of our Scientific School, has received honors from four foreign societies; while Dr. Gould, another astronomer, has been elected a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg...