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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecture delivered in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory last evening. The city of Pergamon, said Dr. Tarbell, was situated near the seacoast in Mysia on a hill between two rivers which flow into the Aegean Sea. It was of no importance before the time of Alexander the Great. After the death of Alexander the city was chosen as a place of deposit for treasure by Attalus who founded a dynasty in 241 B. C. which lasted for several hundred years. The princes of this dynasty distinguished themselves by their energy, and by the purity of their private lives. They were troubled...
Professor William R. Harper of Yale has declined the presidency of South Dakota university, made vacant by the death of President Alsen...
...Schiller died. His life was indeed romantic, filled with many struggles against adverse circumstances, and at a time when he had gained a high position among his people he was cut off by disease. Goethe lived a silent life for twenty-seven years after and at his death left works which filled forty volumes. Of the two, Goethe was the more natural and worked on the inspiration of the moment; Schiller, a man who worked in art for art's sake. As to the relation that existed between these men, possibly the monument that is erected to their memory...
...number begins with a short sketch of the life of the late Alexander Johnston, who from 1884 to his death filled the chair of Jurisprudence and Political Economy at Princeton. The article does full justice to Professor Johnston's merits, and in a few pages it gives the reader an excellent idea of Professor Johnston's work. Professor A. L. Frothingham, jr., has contributed three admirable articles on art topics the "Introduction of Architecture into Italy," "An early Christian Rock-cut church at Sutri," and "An Architectural Tour in Central Italy." "The Cruise of the Grampus" by Professor William Libbey...
...high respect and regard in which his class held him has made them feel deeply the break caused in their numbers by his death...