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...recent Mathematical Tripos examination, at Cambridge, two ladies obtained mathematical honors. One attained the standard of senior optime, and the other of junior optime...
...College. This list is quite a long one, and contains some that have a good income. Following it is this statement: "None but those who need assistance are expected to apply for scholarships." This principle is undoubtedly wrong, and it is gratifying to see that the President, in his recent report, has come to this conclusion. Such a mistaken idea can only arise from a mistaken conception of the end for which a scholarship is established. A scholarship is undoubtedly intended to advance learning as much as possible. Then how can this end be attained, how can the highest learning...
...Archibald Alexander, a recent graduate of Princeton College, has lately been appointed by the Trustees of Columbia Adjunct Professor in the Department of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, to assist Professor Nairne. Mr. Alexander enters upon his duties fortified with two years of special study at Berlin and Vienna...
...York Times has an exhaustive editorial, in a recent issue, on the subject of elective studies. The author shows a good deal of sense and acknowledge of his subject, but the article can hardly apply to us, as we have realized every improvement which he advocates. The smaller colleges that still crawl in the old rut of making every man swallow the same dose may find it to their advantage to consider this article carefully. The time has come when the old ideas of education are no longer applicable, and the sooner they are laid aside the better. The self...
HAVING excommunicated the wine-sauce, billiards, and boating of Princeton, the religious papers will have a fresh source of anxiety in the Dartmouth's recent announcement that "a new stock of cards has been put into the Library." To save the valuable time of these astute periodicals, we explain that the aforementioned cards are simply and solely for cataloguing purposes. How hard up for news the editors of the Dartmouth were is shown by the following brevity...