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...vacancies in the Board of Overseers of Harvard College to be filled at the election on Commencement Day, June 26, 1878, are as follows: Five for the full term of six years, in place of Dr. Edward H. Clarke, deceased, and of Dr. Le Baron Russell, Rev. Alexander McKenzie, and Messrs. Darwin E. Ware and George W. C. Noble, whose term of office expires on Commencement Day. Messrs. Ware and Noble are not eligible for re-election, having been elected for two successive terms. Messrs. Russell and McKenzie are eligible for re-election. The Standing Committee of the association will...
CORNELL has taken the earliest opportunity offered by the opening of the spring term at Ithaca, to hold a meeting, and decide on our challenge for a University race; and the reply, which we regret to say is in the negative, is printed in this issue. Our challenge, which the Ithaca newspapers considered as highly impertinent, was understood in its right spirit by the members of the Cornell Navy, and it is only the peculiar conditions laid down in our letter, and the previous arrangements of the Cornell crew, that prevent them from rowing a race which would...
...afford field practice on the various problems of Physical Geology accessible between the Mississippi River and the Appalachian Mountains. Persons may enter upon their work at any time after June 15. The fee for instruction and the use of camp equipage will be fifty dollars for the term of six weeks. Board in camp will be about five dollars per week. The school will be under the general supervision of the Professor of Palaeontology, who will be present for a part of the term; he will be assisted by two or more competent instructors. For further information address Prof...
...WILLIAM EVERETT has been requested to take charge of the first class at Adams Academy, Quincy, until the end of the present school-term, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Dimmock...
...such a comparison between the universities of England and America the reader is referred to an article in the North American Review by President Eliot. The length of the English term and the American term, the modes of instruction, the systems of examination, the discipline and morals in the colleges of both countries, are compared in such a way as to show what is best adapted to the wants of undergraduates...