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...Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, was a fellow of All Souls, and Froude, the historian, of Jesus College. Dr. Johnson studied at Pembroke, and many of his copybooks and manuscripts are to be seen there. Blackstone, of law fame, was also a student of this college. Magdalen, although not the most celebrated for learning or age, has the most beautiful surroundings, and is perhaps a favorite among the English. Brasenose gets its peculiar name from the fact that one of its halls stands on the site of an old brasen-hus or brewery...
...great loss to suggest a plan for resuscitating the industry of American ship-building. Such a professorship would be more appropriate however at one of our technical schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Great Britain at least has a professorship of this sort and Mr. Francis Elgar, naval architect of the city of London, has recently been unanimously elected to the chair of naval architecture in the University of Glasgow, which was recently endowed by Mr. John Elder. Mr. Elgar is a Fellow of the late Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and a member...
...collection. It has thus far been deemed impracticable to allow the books to be taken away from the building, and consequently a large reading room was indispensable. Mr. Van Brunt, of Boston, who had the advantage of experience in remodeling the Harvard library building, was employed as the architect, and the result is probably in many respects the most interesting university library building in the country. The predominant feature of it is the semi-circular reading-room. This room is admirably lighted by a continuous row of twenty-two windows near the ceiling. The reading desks are ranged in semi...
Supervising Architect Hill has filed exceptions to the amended specifications made against him by Mr. Murch...
Additional testimony was heard yesterday by the committee investigating the charges of malfeasance in the supervising architect's office. Several important facts were elicited...