It has been proposed at Princeton to make a course in the gymnasium compulsory.
Joseph Dean, of Minneapolis, has given $25,000 to Hamline University, in Minnesota.
Dr. McLaren, of Manchester. Eng., declines an invitation to lecture before the Yale students.
Newnham College, Cambridge, has now about eighty students in residence and makes a reasonable profit, out of which, however, during the past year, over L600 was devoted to reducing the cost of education by means of scholarships, exhibitions, and loans. An additional wing to the north hall and a hospital building are now in progress. Some magnificent donations have been recently made by Mrs. H. Sidgwick and Mr. Winkworth towards the cost of building a biological laboratory. The correspondence classes conducted in connection with Newnham College continue to be very useful in directing the studies of lady students residing at a distance.
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