The English department at Johns Hopkins, under Dr. Bright, has taken a decided philological turn, and in order to increase the facilities for the study of English as a literature, a sum of one hundred thousand dollars has been given to endow a new professorship.
The faculty of the School of Arts of Columbia College passed at their last meeting a resolution to remove Latin and Greek from the list of compulsory studies in the junior year. This is one of the most radical changes that has ever been made by the college board, and as far as the students are concerned, a very popular one.
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