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Some of the residents of Pullman, the model city founded by the Pullman Car Company near Chicago, have organized an Athletic Club and Rowing Association, and will hold their first field meeting the latter part of the month. An island has been constructed near the town in Lake Calumet and upon it has been built a fine boat-house and an excellent running track, with the usual accommodations. Several shells and barges have been purchased of Waters of Troy, and regattas will be held in the spring...
...Ruskin has lately applied himself with renewed activity to the founding of his new model museum at Sheffield...
...five thousand dollars toward the erection of a "Law College," and offered a loan of two thousand dollars more in order to enable the corporation to proceed immediately to the erection of a building. The Dane Law College was completed in October, 1832, and was then considered a model institution of its kind, providing as it did ample accommodations for the number of students then attending it. For several years, and more especially since the new system of instruction has been carried into effect, the need of the school for a new building has been most apparent. The shelves...
...time, and then returned to the student corrected by the instructor according to his own ideas of style, expression, et cetera. This way is well enough, provided we take the instructor in question as absolute authority in all questions arising in this subject, and fashion our style after the model preferred by the instructor. In many cases the beauties or advantages of the model, if there be any, are not considered in the least, and it is copied as faithfully as possible merely for the purpose of acquiring a good mark...
...performance of "Dido and Aeneas" last evening, by the H. P. C., drew out an immense audience and proved a thorough success. The dance of the Zuni chiefs and the "pas seul" by Dido were especially well received, and the song of "The Model College President" was recognized as containing some home hits; delivered without malice, however. The cast was as follows...