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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expenses of an "oppidan," amounting to over $1,000. From a classical school exclusively, Eton now teaches mathematics, physics, etc., and all the branches of learning necessary for admittance into the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, and the school has a number of fellowships connected with either university. A singular custom called "montem" was practiced at Eton triennially, but was abolished in 1844, as it created...
While the students have the advantage of extra lectures delivered during the college year by the instructors, or by gentlemen invited to lecture, upon certain subjects, the subject of music is neglected. It is somewhat singular that the talent at hand does not volunteer lectures or recitals of music. A large number of students able to appreciate good music have but few chances to hear it during the college term, and one or two organ or piano recitals would be greatly appreciated by them. Moreover, many works of the old composers, especially Bach and Handel, are never heard nowadays...
...great aversion to tea. This was shown in a marked manner on one occasion when, being asked at the supper table if he would have a cup of that beverage, he greatly astonished the hostess by almost shrieking out. "Tea! boiled hay!" At another time he manifested in a singular way his distaste for the society of the gentler sex. While talking with a friend in a reception room, a man approached and said that there were certain young women present who desired an introduction to Professor Sophocles. The professor signified his willingness to meet them, and they were ushered...
...their studies, and except in the schools of law and medicine, there is essentially no prescribed course. The university is also open to all comers without the formality of examination; the rigorous mid-term and final lests being relied upon to keep the scasses weeded. It is another singular feature of the regime that, save the long summer intermission, there is no vacation, nor a single holiday with the exception of Christmas. Thanksgiving, New year's, Washington's birthday are simply the last Thursday in November, January 1, and February 22, to the stern calendar in vogue here, and Saturday...
...singular fact that the important subject of hygiene has never, until now, been included in the curriculum of the Harvard Medical School, which may rightfully lay claim to being considered the first institution of the kind in the country. The omission is the more remarkable in view of the fact that in some of the Western States, where medical practitioners are obliged to secure a license from the State before practising in it, proficiency in hygiene is prescribed as one of the requisites for admission to practice; so that a graduate of the Harvard Medical School hitherto might justly...