Alexandria Gazette

Harvard College.

The friends of Harvard College fear that the political revolution will give the opponents to that institution an opportunity to attack it successfully in the coming Legislature. An attempt will be made by the "red republicans" to have Mr. Bowen ousted from his professor's chair on account of some conservative articles which he has published in the North American Review on Hungary. Others wish to discard the present courses of study and degrees, and to permit students to select their own studies, receiving certificates of proficiency as they may merit them. Agricultural chemistry, civil engineering, history, and the modern languages can thus be studied without so attending to Greek, Latin, and the physical sciences.

This "new school" of education has been adopted in Brown University, at Providence, and succeeds admirably. A certain amount of study and acquirement entitles students to the degree of bachelor of philosophy, another certain amount to the degree of bachelor of arts, and still another to the degree of master of arts. —Letter from Boston.