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7. Q. Kt. Q. B. 3.
THE latest addition to the London University is a Professorship of Hygiene and Public Health.
THE Oxford-Cambridge race takes place to-morrow at 7.45 A.M. The last English papers state that the betting, which had been 10 to 7 in favor of the latter, is now even, owing to the changes in the Cambridge crew.
NUMEROUS cases of brain-fog and actual insanity from over study have recently occurred in England. Ten per cent of the young men who passed the competitive Civil Service Examination for Indian service showed, when they afterwards applied for health-certificates, that they had been affected injuriously by the strain of the examination.
NOT long ago, an examiner at the London University, speaking to another examiner, boasted of the puzzling questions he had been ingenious enough to ask, whereupon the other replied, to my great satisfaction, "You should try and find out how much, not how little, the students know." I should have no fear of questions being unreasonable put by a wise, common-sense professor like this, whereas some learned men expect a student to reach in a few months the level of their own mature knowledge. - D. Hack Tuke, F. R. C. P., before the British Med. Ass'n.
SCHEDULE OF GAMES OF AMERICAN COLLEGE BASE BALL ASSOCIATION FOR THE SEASON OF 1880.
May 8. - Harvard vs. Dartmouth, at Hanover.
May 8. - Brown vs. Princeton, at Princeton.
May 12. - Harvard vs. Amherst, at Amherst.
May 14. - Brown vs. Dartmouth, at Hanover.
May 21. - Harvard vs. Princeton, at Princeton.
May 22. - Harvard vs. Princeton, at Jersey City.
May 25. - Harvard vs. Brown, at Providence.
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