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Professor W. Z. Ripley, of the Economic Department, will sail for London on Wednesday to be gone three weeks. He will deliver the annual Huxley Memorial Lecture in commemoration of Thomas Henry Huxley's work in the field of ethnology, before the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. This lecture is in substance a recognition of work done in the preparation of his great book, "The Races of Europe...
...Rhodes emphasized the important part which Godkin played in the public life of his time. Born in Ireland, he arrived in America at the age of 23, and not long after began newspaper work. In time he became the editor of the "Nation," and for thirty-five years continued his journalistic career, taking at all times an active part in political questions. In 1883 he was made editor-in-chief of the "Evening Post," and in the "Nation," which had now become a weekly edition of the "Evening Post," he exercised an important literary influence...
...that all means which lead to the acquisition of that wealth are, if not laudable, at least expedient. Those of you who have fitly imbibed the spirit of our university--and it was not a materialistic university which trained a scholar to take both the Graven and the Ireland in England--will violently resent that thought, but you will live and eat and move and have your being in a world dominated by that thought. Some of you will probably succumb to the poison...
...Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland," by Sir J. B. Burke...
...Federation. At the annual dinner of the members tonight he will speak informally on some subject connected with the work of the Federation. The other speakers will be Andrew Carnegie, John Mitchell, E. H. Harriman, General Fred D. Grant, Samuel Gompers, George W. Perkins, and Archbishop John Ireland...