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President Angell's report to the board of regents, of Michigan University, notes an increase of thirty-six in the attendance of women during 1886-7, and a relative gain in numbers with respect to the male student. They now form nearly seventeen per cent. of the whole. He bears witness to their capacity to meet the severest tests of the common discipline, and says:- "The advantages derived from the University courses have proved as helpful to the women in their lives subsequent to their graduation as to the men." Of both sexes, he says: "The number of farmers' children...
There has been one great change here since President Eliot was a student. He never thought of asking a professor about anything, not even about his subject. Now there is much co-operation between the instructors and students, which is fostered by the departmental clubs and reading rooms. The greatest difficulty in the way of a proper understanding between students and faculty is lack of information. There is much printed matter, furnished gratuitously, which is not read. For instance, a student said to the president that the "organization of Memorial was fundamentally vicious, as the steward had an interest...
...Four 'Funny' Characters," is a cynical sketch of the life of four different types of college student. The style is rather too jerky and unpolished. Carlyle is jerky and unpolished; but Carlyle is forcible. Nobody can read "My Friend Blobbs" without enjoying its cleverness and the clear individuality which the writer makes out for his friend Blobbs. It seems he knows his man well, and he surely succeeds in making him "an open book" for all who will read this amusing sketch...
TUTORING in History 9 and Polit. Econ. 8. J. A. HILL, Graduate Student, 10 Oxford street...
TUTORING in History 9 and Polit. Econ. 8. J. A. HILL, Graduate Student, 10 Oxford street...