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Frank Henry Eames was born at Wilmington, Mass., February 9 1863 He attended the public schools of his native town, and in 1882 entered Phillips Academy, Andover, where he was graduated in 1885, third in his class. He made many friends while at Andover, and won the respect of his elders as well as his school mates by his cheerful courage, his studiousness and his earnest, independent character...
...Benjamin Woodbridge of New bury. From the first Commencement in 1652, till 1773. degrees were conferred on the students, and their names arranged in the catalogue, not according to age, or scholarship, or the alpheber, but according to the rank their families held in society. This Benjamin Woodbridge was born in England but came to America in 1634 with his brother. He had been a member of Magdalen college in Oxford. Eng., but chose to complete his collegiate education in New England. Mr. Woodbridge was a preacher and poet. From his eulogy on the Rev. John Cotton, who died...
...PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2.- Dr. Edmund J. James, professor in the University of Pennsylvania, has been offered the chair of Political economy in Harvard University. Professor James, one of the best known of the young American economists, was born in Illinois in 1855. After an extensive course of college and university study in the West and East he went to Europe, where he took the doctor's degree at the University of Halle in Prussia...
...Poesies," "Nouvelles Poesies," "Melanges." "Crutes." "Confe-sion d'su Enfant du Siecle," Alexander Dumas' "Lavie, sontemps, son Oeuvre," by Henri Blage de Bury, a work of great interest. "Eloquence Politique et Parlementaire en France avant, 1789," by C. Aubertin. Correspondence de Balzac, and the Poesies Completes de Bertran de Born...
...World as Will and Idea," which is by all means the best possible introduction to his thought. Helen Zimmern's "Arthur Schopenhauer" gives a sketch of the Philosopher s life in English, a sketch made valuable chiefly by the quotations from foreign sources inserted in the text. Schopenhauer was born in 1788, and died...