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Houghton. Mifflin and Co., announce the following books in press by Harvard men: "Studies in History," by Henry Cabot Lodge; "John Adams," (Statesmen series) by John T. Morse, Jr.; and a translation, with additions and an index of Ploetz's "Epitome of Ancient, Medialval and Modern History," by Wm. H. Tillinghast...
Columbia Spectator complains that the college library has but one Spanish book, an old copy of "Don Quixote." A preceding page has an article upon the facilities for studying modern languages afforded at Columbia...
Canon Stubbs, the well known historian, has recently been raised to the bishopric of Chester. This appointment creates a vacancy in the Regius professorship of Modern History at Oxford, and efforts are being made to induce Mr. Freeman to accept this chair...
...real issues in the coming presidential-election contest? 3. Why does poverty tend to increase as the population and wealth of a nation increase? 4. The influence of religion upon plastic art and painting. 5. Define realism as exemplified in novel writing. 6. The influence of Aristotle on modern thought...
...object was to advance that educational reform now in progress whereby the circle of "liberal studies" is to be widened so as to include, besides the Latin, Greek and mathematics, which were the staples of the sixteenth century curriculum, those other sciences of later growth and of modern perfection "which now moment the highest consideration from every one save college trustees and faculties." President Eliot opened by pointing out that nowhere had reform moved more sluggishly or against greater obstacles than in the alteration of the accepted courses of instruction in institutions of learning. He showed how slowly Greek...