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...university has been located at Chattanooga, Tenn. It will be the central Methodist University in the South, and $80,000 will be spent on it this year...
Beethoven's seventh symphony was the central selection this time, and on the whole was well played. Something appeared to be the trouble diring the first movement which was dreadfully ragged, each man playing independently, so that it was hard to catch the conductor's interpretation. The remaining three numbers were, however, as well played as we have ever heard the orchestra play Beethoven, except that in the third movement the sudden change to the "tempo primo" was not together. On the whole, though the symphony is a favorite one, it contains probably some of Beethoven's most commonplace thoughts...
...perfected in 1876. And the fact that Washington never received pecuniary compensation for his services in the army, leaves a debt to be paid to his memory by the American people; and as he had a well-defined plan in regard to the establishment of a university in a central part of the United States, for the benefit of the youth of all parts of the country, and as Washington and Lee University is the only seat of learning in existence which received his personal aid and encouragement, and is being developed so as to realize to the country...
...education. In the continual multiplying of new foundations there must be in one sense a certain loss of time, energy and money. We do not believe that the higher education of the country should be concentrated in one, or oven in very few institutions. Every section should have its central college of liberal arts as a promotive to a broader education of the masses below. But the very best opportunities from simple economic reasons can only be offered in some few central universities of all sciences. It is these universities that are too often neglected for the sake of lesser...
...John Avery, a well known civil engineer, a graduate of Harvard, was killed last week on the New York Central Railroad...