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...servants. The school is now established in the rue de Paradise, No. 58, in a house adjoining the palais des archiues. The courses are public and free. The course of study takes three years to complete. The term opens in the middle of November and ends the first of August. The subjects taught are paleography, languages, bibliography, diplomacy, political, administrative and judiciary institutions; civil and canon law of the middle ages. Such a school is a heaven for the specialist in any of these subjects. The instructors are all eminent men, and the number of students is so limited that...
...smooth and well sodded. Eton has possessed these playing grounds for a hundred years or more, and they have been the scene of many a fierce battle at foot-ball and of numberless contests of all sorts between teams from rival schools and from rival buildings. From Easter until August is the time of greatest activity in all sports...
...National Lawn Tennis Association has decided to hold the next annual tournament at Newport the last three days of August and Sept. 1. The ball adopted for use in all the games of the association clubs in America in place of the English ball heretofore...
...McClellan. What McClellan should have done after the battle of May 31 and June 1. What McClellan should have done when at tacked on his right by Lee, June 27, 1862, etc., etc., etc. Especially question of possibility of McClellan's moving on Richmond by the James, in (say) August...
...Gordon began his lecture by describing the strategic movement of "Stonewall" Jackson from his position on the south bank of the Rappahannock to northward and eastward to Manassas Junction, thereby cutting off Pope's communications from his base of supplies. This took place on the 25th and 26th of August, and was a movement of wonderful brilliancy and rapidity. General Gordon spoke here in the highest terms of Gen. Jackson, as standing pre-eminent in a class at West Point-the class of 1842-which included McClellan, Reno, and A. P. Hill...