President Gilman of Johns Hopkins, ecturing before the Geographical Society, recently recommended three undertakings in which he suggested the Society should take an active part : A topographical survey of the United States; an institute of geography, with library, charter, etc.; and a monument to Columbus, to be erected at the Golden Gate, facing the Orient from the Western shore.
The young freshwomen of Vassar are now required to submit to a process called "squelching," which, judging from the vague accounts at hand, appears to be in the nature of an extra course in rhetoric. They are represented as very wroth over the infliction, and have even gone so far as to suggest to the faculty that hazing be substituted as more humane. - [Boston Journal.
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