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University Calendar

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Day
5
Month
February
Year
1875
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Public Domain
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The auuual calendar of the Umversity has at last made its appearance. It makes up for tardinesa by additional size, being larger by 22 pages than last year's calendar. The additional pages are devoted to a description oí the uew PolytecUnic School, and it says concerning it : "The University has for years given advanced iustructiou iu the mathematícal, physical, aud natural sciences, and thorough courses in the practical application of these sciences to the arts. It is designed now to give to the different branches of such work a closer grouping, a more compact organization, and au ampler development, and to recoguize by name what we have alieady had in fact, The Polytechnic School. It forras a portion of the Department of Literature, Science and the Arts. The work is arranged with reference to the wants of two classes of studeuts : 1 . Tliose pursuing the study of Civil or Mining Engineering, or the study of Pharmacy, (wliich incluiles an extended course in Analytical ChemÍ8try) with the view of graduatintf. 2. Graduates of colleges and other persons qualiüed for advanced or special study of Mineralogy, Geology, Zoology, Botauy, Civil or Mining Engineering, Physics, Aualytical and Applied Chemistry, Pharmacy or Metallurgy." There has also been quite an advunce in the requireineuts for admission to the Medical Department. All candidatos who have not matriculated in this Uuivorsity, or who caunot exhibit a certificato of graduation from a respectable High School, academy, or college, are to be examiued iu the elementary branches of au English educahou. In all the Department there ave about 50 different instructors, aud thu summary of the student is as followB : DKPARTMKNT 01" LITEBATUKE, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTB. Resident Grrnduates, 10 Seniors, .-.----99 Juniors, ------ 7H Sophomores, S4 Freshmen, 110 In selected studies, - 24 In Pharmacy, ----- 68 Iu Aanlytical Chemistry (not enumerated elsowhere), - - - - 3 476 Of the above there are iu the Polytechnic School, .... 145 DKPABTMENT OF MEDICINE AND 8UBQEBT. Students- Total in the Department, - 370 DKPAIITMENÏ OF KAW. Seniora, - 141 Júniora, ..... 204 Total in the Department, - - 345 Total in the University, - - 1191 The following is the summary oí States : Michigan, 563 Virginia, I Ohio, 114 West Virginia, 6 Illinois, 107 Arkansas, 6 New York, 84 Texas, 4 l'ennsylvania, 50 Mississipiii, i Indiana, 44 Kansas, 6 Wisconsin, 35 Nebraska, 6 Iowa, 22 Colorado, I Missouri, 13 California, 8 Massachu8etts, lSildaho, 1 Kentucky, 11 Wyomiug, 1 Minnesota, 10 Nevada, 3 Maine, 6 Utah, 2 Vennont, 9 Ontario (Canada), 3ö New Jersey, 5 Hawaiian Islanda, 3 New Hampshire, 3 Japan, 2 Connecticut, 1 Natal, South África, 1 Ehode Island, 2 Liberia, Aírioa, 2 Delaware, 5 BusBia, 1 Maryland, 1 Of the studonta in attendance, 120 are ladies, and they are distributed in the varlous Departments as follows ; Literary, 69 ; Medical, 48 ; Law, 3. The whole number of studeuta is 79 greater than last year's number. There are 99 put down as'Seniors in the Literary Department, and these, added to those whose ñames are placed in other cl asees for various reusous, but who will gradúate this year, will swell the number to soveral more thau one hundred. They will take degrees at followi: B. A., 43; Ph. B., 20; B. S., 17; C. ï., '20. This Í3, of couiio, exclusive of the ] 'hnruiacy itodoata. The lirst semester close Fel). 12 ; the secoud I leiiis Fel). 16. The Medical and Law ' nencamanta will be held March 21, and college will close June 30. ■ 4 m- w- WlTAT SnMF KmINENT MEN NAT OF St. NlCHOLAS.- John G. Whittier says: " It is little to say of .S7. Nicholaê that it i the bet cluld's periódica! in the world, and I think the editor hits great reasou to congratúlate herselt apon it," Kev. C. S. Bobinson, I). I)., in the Sunday School Time; K've a clor(?ynin"s view of St. Ifichaku : " I m ready to my that & cleaner, purer, mora trust wurthy poriodical for childrun cannot be named. The "best writera are etigagod upon it. It is printud beautifully, and illustratod in tlio highest style of art. I know the proprietor, and if evor a high noble purposo was cherished by any public people, it is fuuud here. The magazine does not claim to be rohgious, but it is on the side of all that i truo and goud, from begiuning to end." Dr. B. Shelton Mackonzic, the Literary Editor of the PhUadalphia Press says " .S'i!. Nicholat, I teil you in private, as I have told niy readers i public, is the very best magazine for young pooplo that I have ever seen. Jt ír far more difhcult, 1 think, to edit a periodioal of this cliiss thau oue iutondod for adults, and Mis. Dodga dosorven unlimited praise lor the judioioui) tnauner m which she has executed lier tüsk. I havo found hoaps of thiugs in St. Nickolas which I had forgotten, had imperfectly known, r had heen whollv ignoraut of. So I, too, sit at the feet of (Jnmaliel." Edmuad Clarence Stedmaii saya : " Sí. tfichoku, without and witliin, iü a hoiueliold ■liurin, and certaiuly surpasses any Children's Year-Hook, En;jlish or American, tliat I have ever seen." Chullo Dudley Warner writes of SI. Nicholas: "Xever befoie, I think, has sö much literary anrt artiatic taleut co-oporaled in the service of children, and I will not reRist the hearty iuipulse to aay to you that you hava made the best magazino tor children of all agüH that I have ever seon. 1 do not aoe how it can bö made auy better, and f the children don't like itf I think it is time to bein to ohange the kind of children in this couutry." l'OSTAOE OX IiKÏTK.RS TO CANADA. -Oll Febnwry lst the new Inw regulatiug iiostage on letters to Canada went into effect. The postago now on letters to all parts of Canada will 1)0 three cents per oiifl-lialf ounoe, prepayment oompulsory. No unpaid or msuflicient prepaid letter will ba forwarded.

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