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mmrr-m- HlHI HESPERIAN STUDENT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. EEDfl J Vol. XII. LINCOLN, NEB., MARCH 22, 1884. No. XL Only forty students of the Texas University are women. Spurgeon, the Loudon preacher, has fallen holr 10 a large fortune. Cabel Chcoshahteaumark, an Indian, graduated from Harvard in 1805. Whittier regards Hawthorne ns the greatest master of the English language. Oxford has at last opened its examinations to women on the some terms as to men. John Guy Vassar has given $10,000 to he expended on tho labratory at Vassar college. It is believed that Wendell Philipps left interesting and important manuscripts for publication. A college exclusively for women will bo opened in Now York City as soon as the necessary money can be obtained. Chancellor Mauatt says that he comes back from visit ing oilier schools much encouraged as to the prospects for our own. Tho False Prophet, El Mahdi, is in dally fear of assas sination. Visitors are compelled to approach him on hands and knees. Car wheels, stoves, chimneys and numerous other things requiring hard usage have been made from paper ; and now a watch, which keeps good time, lias been made entirely from that material. What next? "Uetwoeii Shaksporo in his cradle and Shnkspcre in Hamlet there was needed but an interval of timl, and tho samo8Ubllmo condition is all thatltes between tho Amer ica of toil and tho America of art." Higginson, The late Prof. Sophocles of Harvard University was a man of great learning and a volumnlous author. Ho was, however, very eccentric. He lived alone and cooked his own meals, preparing, it is said, somo very queer dishes. A popular subscription has been started in Boston to raise money for. the purposo of erecting a monument, to Wendell Philipps. It moy be a good plan; but if they would confer a little of this honor upon great men before they die, it would do the recipient more good, and bo do cidedly moro sensible. Wendell Philipps, however, has loft a monument moro enduring than marble or bronze, in his unselfish labors in bohalf of oppressed humanity. Harvard does not seom quite ready to give up Greek. Tho overseers announce, that thoy "stand together against tho senseless cry which speaks of tho great ancient lan guages as dead in an offensive senso of that word." Harvard Annex ha3 forty-eight girl undergraduates, whose average scholarship is higher than that of the young men in tho university. In justice to tho latter, however, it must bo remembered that tho girls are not obligejl to devote ten hours a day to rowing and baseball. There is a renewed interest manifesting itself in the project 01 flooding the Sahara desert. Some of tho most noted engineers and geographers think tl at it can be done and be conducive of only good results; while many think it will destroy the warm climate of southern Europe. The Harvard faculty liavo taken steps in the right di rection in adopting resolutions prohibiting tho students from employing professional athletes or contesting against them. Such contests form no part of tho curries ulum of an educational institution. Ynlo, howovcr, still holds' out. The annual report of the president of Johns Hopkins University has been received. This institution is coming to tho front as one of tho most important factors in post graduate education in America. Among other tilings wo noticed tho mention ot the reading of a paper on "The Income Tax in America" by H. W. Caldwell, now an in structor in this institution. Mathow Arnold delivered his farewell lecture in Now. York Saturday March 1st. on tho subject "Literature and Science." In tho course of somo remarks after tho lec ture he said that lie was highly pleased witli tho people and tho way thoy had treated him, and expressed the wish to again visit America. A well filled purso, which lie undoubtedly carries away with him, is, probably, not the least caused of his gratification. The contest between the classical and scientific studies continues unabated. To an impartial observer, it appears as though both sidos wero going too far. Charles Fran cis Adams and somo of his followers would have nothing, whatever, to do with Latin and Greek ; while, on the other hand, some of his opponents would have as little to do with tho sciences. It is obviously' wrong that a col lego or university should baso Its teaching on either the classics or sciences; and were tho subject to be left to. 7 settle itself, so to speak, it would doubtless choose the "goldeu mcau," and furnish courses of study with these now opposing elements judiciously intermingled. m