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...Amherst Glee Club has been on a western tour, occupying twenty-three days. They gave seventeen concerts with great success...
...Boston Record thinks that it is significant, as showing how Boston muscle is at a premium, that not only the champion prize fighter hails from their centre of culture, but that seventeen of the thirty-two members of the Harvard class crews claim Boston as their home...
...Governor and Attorney-General of Maine, together with seventeen members of the Legislature, are alumni of Bowdoin College...
...selects that course; and secondly, I believe in a fixed curriculum of required studies, to which a student may add a certain number of studies of his own choice. The idea of a curriculum without any election does not seem to me wise. A young man of sixteen or seventeen is certainly capable of choosing two or three elective branches. In this country most young men at that age are called upon to decide for themselves far more weighty questions. They are obliged to choose their calling for the whole of their after lives, to decide what professions they will...
Italy has declared its seventeen universities open to women, and Switzerland. Norway, Sweden and Denmark have taken similar action, while France has opened the Sorbonne to women, and Russia its highest schools of medicine and surgery...