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...gives the following sketch of Dr. Everett, who preached at Cornell last Sunday: "The Rev. Wm. Everett is a son of Edward Everett, and is said to inherit a very large share of his father's genius. Having distinguished himself at Harvard as one of the finest Greek scholars ever graduated from that university, he went to England and continued his studies in Cambridge. While there he became a member of the famous university debating-club, the Cambridge Union, and in that body, during that darkest period of our Civil War, when all England looked with sympathy upon the rebellion...
Alvan Clark & Sons of this city are building a telescope for the Russian government, to be placed in the observatory at Polkova. It will be 45 feet long, and the diameter of the object-glass is 30 inches. The telescope will be the largest ever made...
...request you to publish the following, in order to immediately prevent the further spread of the entirely erroneous impression given the college world by our blundering contemporary, the Yale News, in its issue of Nov. 3. Neither the editor-in-chief, nor any other editor of the Argo, ever sent any communication whatsoever to the managing or other editor of the Amherst Student. The letter printed by the latter, as coming from Williams, was simply a huge joke in the Student's usual ponderous style, and was evidently taken by the over-zealous News as sober earnest...
...there is any man who has ever occupied the executive chair whom I should consider it an honor to succeed, it is the present governor of the State. - [Gen. Butler...
...singing or painting. Indeed, even if a course of such a nature should be instituted, it is very doubtful whether enough benefit would be gained to pay for the trouble of the experiment. Probably not more than one man in ten who begins the study ever perseveres, and out of those who do persevere very few become skilled enough to command a good salary. What is needed to insure success is not so much instruction as constant and hard practice. There are so many thorough and systematic textbooks that very little, if any, additional explanation would be required. For this...