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...King of the Netherlands agreed to give over the territory about the Essequibo River to the possession of England. No mention of the boundaries was made until in 1840 there arose a dispute. A few months later the British government sent out to have a boundary surveyed. Lord Aberdeen, who commissioned the survey, was anxious to have natural boundaries. Schomburgk, the explorer, followed the Barina River farther than it had seemed to extend before. By this survey considerable more territory was included as British possessions...
This evening at 7.30 o'clock, Professor W. M. Ramsay of Aberdeen, Scotland, delivers his first lecture in Divinity Chapel, on "The Style and Character of the Arts of the Apostles as an Historical Document." The public are invited...
...close all the Harvard men present, graduates and undergraduates, gathered in front of the platform and indulged in some cheering for several minutes and everybody went away happy. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Farwell, parents of S. E. Farwell, leader of the glee club, gave a party at the Aberdeen after the concert. It was universally agreed that this was by far the pleasantest event of the trip. There was an air of congeniality and good fellowship about the whole thing which the fellows found nowhere else to the same degree. Mr. and Mrs. Farwell spared no pains to make...
...four hundred and sixty names, and the year of their graduation ranges from 1642 to 1879. The degrees conferred are D. D, LL.D, D. C. L., D. D., Doctor of Music, and Doctor of Literature. Oxford has given degrees to eleven Harvard men, Glasgow, to three, Edinburgh, to ten, Aberdeen, to five, Cambridge, to six, and Trinity, to five, while the remaining graduates received their degrees from American colleges. It is interesting to note that Richard H. Dana, of the class of '37, received the honorary degree of D. C. L. from Hobart college, which is the only instance...
Prof. Drummond is soon to be married to the daughter of the Earl of Aberdeen.- Amherst Student...