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There is a movement on foot in the English universities to render their postgraduate research departments more popular among foreign students. The reason that these universities are not more popular among advanced American students is because they have no post-graduate work, in the American sense of the term. The...
Macaulay won a fair share of University honors, being twice awarded the Chancellor's medal for English verse, and also obtaining the Greaves Essay prize. Without doubt, it was only by the life of easy sociability which he led, and by the active part which he took in all the...
Far be it from me to say anything derogatory to Canon Farrar who early proved himself a brilliant and accomplished classical scholar, winning fourth place in the first class of the classical tripos in 1854, and a Trinity fellowship in 1856, besides many of the highest prizes in Greek and...
A recent work upon "The Myths of the Odyssey," by an Englishwoman, Miss Harrison, is meeting with a great success in England. "We are indebted to Miss Harrison for laying down the lines upon which the Greek myths can be studied," says the Academy; and the Athenoeum declares that "it...
The examination in the first class for the mathematical tripos at Cambridge University lasts for nine days, six hours each day. And yet complaint is made of the hardships endured under the examination system in America!