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...hundred and fifteen new students. Six are females, twenty-three are from other colleges and universities, fifty-three enter the scientific course, seventeen the course in literature, twenty-two the course in arts, eighteen in engineering, and the rest are distributed among the minor courses or are optional students...
There are 504 Freshmen at Oxford. Of the twenty-two colleges, New College has the largest number, - 63; and 49 are unattached. At Cambridge the Freshmen are more numerous. In seventeen colleges there are 681. Of these St. John's has 109, and Trinity...
...with the most gratifying success. It is already the custom for graduates to append the abbreviation Harv. to the honorary letters, in distinction from the degrees of which our numerous mushroom colleges are so lavish. There are at present in Cambridge twenty candidates for the degree of A. M., seventeen for the degree of Ph. D., and three for that of S. D.; and this number would doubtless be largely increased next year, were it not for the one blemish in the system which needs remark. By the present system candidates for degrees are required to stay in Cambridge...
...most important and satisfactory changes are in the Classical Department, where Greek and Latin have twenty-three elective courses against the seventeen of this year. An entirely new course is given on the "Greek and Latin Languages, Literature, Constitutional History, and Antiquities," and another on "Greek and Latin Comparative Philology," both of which promise to be very attractive. A new feature of the elective system is introduced in announcing several two-hour electives, with examinations to count as one-hour electives only. This supplies a want long felt. Many Seniors have wished to take one two-hour elective...
...interesting works that the society would do well to publish have been suggested in the Academy, by Mr. Richard Simpson and others. Among them, besides various forms of parallel texts, are suggested reprints of the works of Robert Greene, Thomas Nash, Thomas Lodge, Henry Chettle, and others; reprints of seventeen plays, at some time or other attributed, in whole or in part, to Shakspere; lists of all the companies of actors in Shakspere's time, besides much else that would prove interesting. Among works planned, but still far in the future, the most important is the Towneley Mysteries, re-edited...