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...stranger wondered why he wanted to cut the book, and turned the leaves to see where they were mutilated. The book had never been injured with knife or scissors, although it seemed about to tumble to pieces from age and misuse...
...true, as reported on the authority of a Virginia paper, that William and Mary College has closed, Yale is advanced to the second position, in respect to age, among American colleges. William and Mary was chartered by the King and Queen of England in 1692, eight years before Yale was founded, and for a long time was the distinctive college of the South. It graduated four Presidents of the United States, and at one time had among its students Chief Justice Marshall and Gen. Scott. But after the incorporation of Hampden-Sidney and the University of Virginia, its catalogue...
Donor's Tablet. Inscribed by Ka-me-da, Giver of bell to the Buddhist Temple, cast and engraved by Ko-ga-wa, Cu-ni-no-hi, in the eleventh year of the age Bunka...
...Trenor W. Park of Vermont died of paralysis on the 14th inst. on a steamer in which he had taken passage for Aspinwall. He was fifty-nine years of age...
...EDITOR OF THE N. Y. EVENING POST - Sir : The other day my son, aged about fifteen years, asked me the meaning of a certain objectionable passage in a play of Shakespeare, which, he said, he was instructed by his school teacher to analyze. Surprised that the boy should have such subject matter given for his lucubrations at so early an age, I made inquiry at the school, at the same time expressing my desire that he should receive other subject-matter for his studies in composition. I was informed in reply that, as the boy was understood to be preparing...