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...title page candidly informs us that the contents are designed "for the use of the collegiate youth," a design which we sincerely hope was realized in fact. In the first place, we learn that the academic year was divided into four terms, instead of three, as is generally the custom in this country. College opened on the tenth of October and closed for the year on Monday next after the seventh of July, at which time something like our present Commencement exercises took place...
Tolman Wheeler, of Chicago, has donated a valuable tract of land in the western division of that city, and advanced $290,000 towards the erection of a preparatory school under the care of the Episcopal church. The design is to be after that of Oxford, a prominent feature of the structure being a chapel and a library to contain 10,000 volumes...
...architecture in the University of Glasgow, which was recently endowed by Mr. John Elder. Mr. Elgar is a Fellow of the late Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and a member of the Council of the Institution of Naval Architects. He has had great experience in the design and construction of war ships for the British and foreign navies, and also of mercantile vessels. He investigated the causes of the disasters which befell the Daphne and Austral; and upon his evidence the rulings were based at the official inquiries in both cases. The new professor is the first...
...dismay that he has been marked lower than the figures he coveted, when it will be too late for him to recover his lost ground. In some courses the work of correcting papers is very great and some delay cannot be helped, but it should be the design of instructors in such courses to have this delay as short as possible. In other courses there is no excuse why speedy returns should not be the rule...
Tolman Wheeler, of Chicago, has donated a valuable tract of land in the western division of that city, and advanced $200,000 towards the erection of a preparatory school under the care of the Episcopal church. The design is to be after that of Oxford, a prominent feature of the structure being a chapel and a library to contain 10,000 volumes...