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...Bishop, the novelist, who is talked of for the professorship of English literature in Yale, was class poet, and a Delta Kappa Epsilon man while a student there...
...Revolution, when the English soldiers made the Old South Church their riding school, this book was taken from the antiquary room of the Old South. No trace of it since was discovered till towards the middle of this century, when it was found in the library of the Bishop of London, at Fulham. Mr. Motley, when he was minister to England, attempted to recover the book, but was unsuccessful. A copy of it, however, was made for America, and this has been published. The original is still in the library at Fulham. It may be recovered eventually...
...enter the noble quadrangle of Christ Church, and remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke, Ben Johnson, Sir Philip Sydney, William Penn, the Duke of Wellington and William E. Gladstone have been among its students. Oriel College reminds us of Sir Walter Raleigh, Bishop Butler, Thomas Arnold and John H. Newman. Corpus Christi once had Coleridge for a pupil, and from University College the ethereal Shelly was expelled. John Wickliff was a fellow of Merton College in 1364, and Frederic W. Robertson and the saintly Helm, the author of the hymn, "From Greenlands lacy Mountains...
...William Henry Bishop, well known as a writer, has gathered several of his short stories, which laws appeared in the different magazines, into book form under the title, Coy Susan and Other Stories. The volume is a handy one and the stories, as a rule, abound in good description's of men and places, making it a good book to read at old moments...
...students of the Spanish university in Madrid are thoroughly incensed against the bishops for censuring one of the professors for advocating liberty of education. The frate disciples of the higher culture expressed their disapprobation of the Bishop's course by thronging the streets today and making a tumultuous demonstration. The police at last succeeded in dispersing the young men, but not before twenty of their number had been arrested...