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More satisfactory is the study of Rideout's work. Here, at least, we have what is worth having and worth noting: the views of an enthusiastic admirer who is at the age when admiration is generous and little restricted by the habit of criticism. It is not possible to accept all the conclusions of the writer, especially as he invalidates some of them himself--e. g., the simile of the lizard on the wall--but it is pleasant to see the genuine attempt to give a reason for the faith that is in the enthusiast...
...addition to being open to members of the University, this course is open to business men on the same terms as was the course in "Corporation Finance": namely, men over 21 years of age and with at least three years of business experience may enter as special students...
...Porritt was born at Bury, England, in 1860. He did not receive a university education but at an early age entered the profession of journalism and became connected with the Manchester Examiner. From 1886 to 1892 he represented this newspaper in the gallery of the House of Commons and thus gained an intimate knowledge of English public men and public affairs. In the latter year he came to America where he has since resided. For some years he has been the American representative of the London Morning Post and the Glasgow Herald...
...needed, who had a thorough training in medicine. Dr. Christian had already established an excellent record of work in the Boston hospitals. He is an unusually young man for the position of head of the Medical School. Born in Lynchburg, Va., in 1876, he entered Randolph Macon at the age of fifteen, being graduated in 1895 with the degrees of A.B. and A.M. For five years he studied at Johns Hopkins and pursued graduate studies at the Harvard Medical School for three more years, at the end of which he received the degree of Master of Arts for pathological studies...
Charles Lowell '54, of whom Major Higginson spoke at greatest length, was full of mischief and fun, always ready for anything, but a brilliant scholar, graduating at the head of the class of 1854, at the age of 19. After leaving the University, he was employed in a counting-room, and later worked as a mill hand, in order to study, the men of the working classes. Through obstinate disregard of his health he contracted tuberculosis, making it necessary for him to travel. He tried Spain, Italy and Aigiers in turn, but finally returned to America and went to take...