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...university at Stockholm has established a professorship of mathematics expressly for a woman. This is Mrs. Dr. Sophie Kowalevski, whose paper on partial differential equations was reorganized as sufficiently important to warrant the establishment of a chair...
...students of the University of New Brunswick at Frederickton had decided to leave college in a body on account of certain disciplinary measures of the faculty and were only quieted by a partial withdrawal of the faculty from their position...
...Princeton, gives the following excellent exposition of the advantages which would accrue to that college if it were to adopt the Harvard system of preliminary examinations: "Harvard, Yale, and the University of Virginia, have a custom which Princeton would do well to inaugurate. It is the system of partial examinations for entrance. Suppose, for instance, a boy intends to enter Princeton, '89. He is already proficient in some branches, say mathematics. He takes the entrance examination in that subject with '88, gets a certificate stating the fact, and when he comes back to enter with his class, is examined only...
...intends to enter Princeton at some future day, comes to be examined in Latin or mathematics, some of his friends who intend to go elsewhere, or who have made no choice, will probably come along. And as they have about the same stand as Tom, they may take a partial examination also. It is readily seen that, in nine cases out of ten, they will finally come for good. Moreover, the boy who has passed a partial examination will go back to his school with his loyalty to Princeton increased an hundred-fold. He will feel that he is already...
...with a bed, a hard mattress, an exceedingly hard pillow, and a sort of a rough shelf, which serves as a wash stand. The walls are decorated to a certain extent with the statistics of former races, the autographs of former oarsmen, and sarcastic observations from unknown visitors, very partial to our adversaries and uncomplimentary to ourselves...