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"Gentlemen and my very kind friends:- I feel not only honored but deeply moved by the letter you have been good enough to write me. During my long service in the University, my relations with the students were always agreeable, not seldom fruitful, to me, and in some good measure...
Prof. F. J. Child has been elected president of "The American Folk-lore Society," which has for its object the study of folk-lore in general and in particular the collection and publication of the falk-lore of North America.
The collection, just voted as a gift to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts by the Egypt Exploration Fund of London includes several large pieces from Rubastis and Nebeskeh. The temple at Rubastis, according to Herodotus, was the most beautiful in Egypt.
The funds for building have already been raised through the exertions of Prof. Goodale. A collection of superb glass models, representing the principal species of flowering plants is now being made in Germany especially for this exhibit. When this addition is completed and the collections arranged it will be surpassed...
No. 14 University now contains not only the political economy library, but also the collection of books on the history of the United States, which has proved of so great use to those who take the course on that subject. The books on political economy were given by members of...