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...understood that Mr. Mapleson has engaged M. Lassalle, who has hitherto been a great favorite at Covent Garden, in London, and who is enthusiastically termed by the London Times "the king of modern baritones," for his company next season...
...building are to have one story and a large basement. The first floor is to be a room 100 feet by 70 feet, with a circular gallery at one end, besides a space for the regular marching and dumb bell exercises. It is to have all the modern appliances for gymnastics and physical exercise. The basement is to contain regular bath rooms, a spray bath room of 8 feet by 10, a hot room to dry and rub down in, a shower bath room, sparring room, statistic room, billiard rooms and bowling alleys. The base-ball and tennis room...
...went abroad to fit himself for the professorship of modern languages, to which his alma mater had appointed him. He returned to America and assumed the professorship at Bowdoin until 1835, when he was appointed by the faculty to fill the place of Mr. Geo. Ticknor, the professor of belles-lettres at Harvard University. In consequence of his appointment, he made another visit to Europe in the summer of 1835. While abroad his wife died, and Mr. Longfellow immediately returned home. In 1843 he married Miss Appleton of Boston, and took up his residence at the old Cragie house...
French 5 finish "Count Kostia" today. The course will then take up the book of Modern French Poetry...
...English universities are self-governed, except London and Manchester, which are controlled respectively by a senate (named by the Crown) and by a board of trustees. The constitutions of Oxford and Cambridge are very complicated and are understood by nobody outside the universities and by few inside. Ancient usage, modern acts of parliament, and their own legislation have all gone to the making of them. These university governments have two modern assemblies, called in Oxford "Convocation" (made up of alumni having degrees) and "Congregation" (made up of graduates resident in the university town). These latter appoint the university council...