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President Barnard of Columbia lately spoke in disparaging terms of the proposed school at Athens. This moves the Times to ire and irony. It says: "Why should our young men go to Athens to study Greek? Is not American Greek good enough for Americans? The American system produces Hellenists like the Yale professors of Greek, who, going down to the Peiraens one day to make a bargain with a native waterman for a sail-boat to take him across the harbor, astonished the man by asking him for a 'transport-boat,' - something that would carry half a dozen regiments...
...Lowman was plucky and quick. The tug of war between '81 and '82 was won easily by the Seniors, who pulled their opponents over in two straight heats. The judges of the fencing were Messrs. Norman, '81, and Cushing, L. S.; and for the sparring, Messrs. Lee, Parker, and Barnard...
...Barnard did not graduate from Harvard College, and by a curious coincidence, neither did his father, nor his grandfather, nor any of his relations, but his grandson expects to be a member...
...Professor Young of Princeton College, Professor Peirce of Harvard, President Porter of Yale, J. E. Hilgard of the United States Coast Survey office, President Garland of Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., President Barnard of Columbia College, Professor Henry of Smithsonian Institute, and other scientific scholars have signed a memorial to Congress asking that the naval observatory at Washington be removed to a healthier and better situation than it has now, and that, so far as possible, it be made fireproof. - Transcript...