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...founder. The chapel is a good gothic structure, and the library is well supplied with the usual amount of manuscripts, etc. There is, however, another library for the use of the boys, the first being too valuable for schoolboy use. Like all English schools, Eton boasts of a long list of celebrated graduates, too long to enumerate, and it will be sufficient to say that Horace Walpole, Chatham, Gray, Shelley, Hallam, the historian, and the Duke of Wellington, were all Eton boys...
Seven Yale men are in the Critic's list of academicians...
...athletics, they alone are to blame, just as they alone are to blame if they give too much time to card-playing or to the theatre, or to many other attractions that-innocent in themselves and even beneficial-are known to interfere with a high position on the rank list...
...committee of the alumni of Harvard have issued their annual circular containg a list of names suggested for candidacy to the board of overseers. As usual, the list is made up almost wholly of Boston names. With many others, I have long shared the opinion that a broader circle should be represented. The board, as at present constituted, contains only two members, Messrs. Sargent and Weld, both of New York, outside of what I may be permitted to call, in no invidious sense, "the Boston ring." There seems to be no reason why the outgoing members, eligible for re-election...
More, at the recent regular meeting of the New York alumni they advocated the names of Mr. Charlemange Tower of Philadelphia for one of the vacant places on the board. Prominent men in the west are likely, also, to receive nominations that the list next June may contain names from all sections...