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...valuable drawings by Samuel Prout, the celebrated English water-color artist, have been taken from the walls of the freehand drawing room in Robinson Hall. One of these was a pencil and reed-pen drawing in brown ink of Louvain cathedral: the other and more valuable drawing was a small water-color of a mediaeval bridge and gate-tower with figures...
...delegates. Harvard will be represented by her professor of belleslettres, Mr. Lowell, who has also been selected to represent Cornell. It is also expected the following European universities will send delegates. Halle, Gottingen, Leipzig, Upsala, Jena, Berlin, Kiel, Christiania, Ghent, Zurich, St. Petersburg, Helsingfors, Cracow, Pesth, Paris, Lund and Louvain. Medals to celebrate this great event in the history of the Scottish university will be struck from gold and silver. Among the contemplated ceremonies will be the conferring of the degrees of D. D. and L. L. D. upon distinguished men. In addition, a grand banquet will be given...
...secular departments. The best professors are to be chosen in philosophy, theology, the physical sciences, history - in a word, in all the subjects treated at a liberal university. If such professors can not be found or can not be spared in this country, they will be called from Europe - Louvain, Rome or Paris. Under such masters it is hoped students will be impelled to a love of the deeper and higher studies in all branches, and thus the school will be made a great centre of life and intelligence...