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...University life. It is now that the less conspicuous but not less important individual training which the gymnasium affords to every member of the University, takes a more prominent place. Though the gymnasium in not quite finished its approximate completion suggests once more the great indebtedness under which the whole University rests toward Mr. Augustus Hemenway by whose generosity the usefulness of the gymnasium will be so much increased...
Moliere therefore resolved to attack the whole medical system from the stage. In this play, Le Malade Imaginaire, he has let loose the full force of his stinging satire, ridiculing to the utmost the ignorant doctors, their rough, crude methods, their bleedings, and purgatives, and above all their quackery and pretensions to knowledge. The great difficulty was to handle so repulsive a subject in such a way as to make it agreeable, and in this, Moliere succeeded to an astonishing degree, without one whit weakening his attack...
...committee of thirty-five Rhode Island women who are trying to raise $50,000 for the Woman's College of Brown University announce that they have already raised $20,000. They hope to have the whole amount subscribed by next fall, so that the new building may be begun by September...
...result of the recent war between Japan and China, a university and preparatory school are to be established at Tien-Tsin. Plans for the university were begun ten years ago, but the whole scheme was in danger of falling through, till the recent war finally brought it to a successful issue. The university will be under government control, and will have a competent corps of foreign professors. Mr. C. D. Tenney is the first president. He was formally a tutor to the sons of Li Hung Chang. The latter, with other officials, has donated money with which a building...
...report for 1893, recently issued by W. T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, gives some interesting statistics on education in this country. The whole number of scholars in the schools and colleges, public and private, was 15,083,630, or 22.5 per cent of the entire population. The public enrolment numbered 13,510,719. There were 2812 public high schools, and 1434 private high schools and academies. The universities numbered 451, of which number 310 were for both sexes. Colleges for women alone numbered 143. The equipment of these institutions were valued at $128,872,801, endowment funds...