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The earl is the great-grandson of that Lord Elgin who found the "Elgin" marbles scattered over the Acropolis at Athens. He picked them up and carried them to England. The present earl, who lives at Dunfermline, Scotland, where Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born, is an honorary colonel of...
That he foresaw such fame on the fated day when he gave his name to the Eighteenth amendment is doubtful. He was after all, no more responsible for its enactment than many millions who had voted for it, and much less responsible that those who had led in the agitation...
In the Harvard Alumni Bulletin is an appreciation which the Boston Transcript reprints, of the work done by the ubiquitous and nebulous Student Vagabond. Rightly or wrongly, he is given credit for the spread of a new word in the local vocabulary, the verb to vagabond-meaning to attend lectures...
Dean West's greater achievement is the persistence of classical teaching in the U. S. When Princeton in 1883 gave him its doctor of philosophy degree, it immediately made him its professor of Latin. A scholar, it was presumed at that time, was a classicist. He knew his humanities...
To turn to pleasanter things, let us conclude this survey by a consideration of the peculiar virtues of Harvard's "Rules for Concentration and Distribution." The chief advantage of the Harvard plan is this; from the end of his Freshman year, the Harvard student knows roughly what he is going...