At the dinner of the Brown University Alumni in New York, Friday night, Mr. George William Curtis spoke at length upon the progress of the modern improvements in the colleges.
Dr. McCosh repeated by special request, his reply to Pres. Eliot's address recently delivered before the 19th Century Club in New York, composed of Princeton professors, and under-graduates.
The funeral of James Newton Garatt, who entered College in the class of 1884, and graduated with '83, and was last year an assistant in the Chemical Laboratory, is to be held at the Saratoga St. Church, East Boston, to-day, (Wednesday), at 1 P.M.
Mr. Woodrow Wilson, the author of "Congressional Government" which has excited so much attention, is a graduate of Princeton, Class '79, and has just accepted the position of Professor of History in Bryn Mawr College for women.
A marking system is to be introduced at Princeton, by which the students will be arranged in groups, and in determining the standing of the men, the difficulty of the subject will be taken into consideration, so that a man who receives a mark of 90 in a difficult subject, may stand higher than a man who receives a mark of 95 in an easy study.- (Ex.