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...destined to be. But those millions are sure to come, as others have come, because these live men believe in that practical sense which vigorously abandons the methods of the darker ages and faces the future. The administration of President Eliot, when it is concluded, will stand as monument to commemorate this American genius for college building...
...MARKOE.BICYCLE CLUB.- There will be a run to Lexington next Friday afternoon, and return by moonlight. The start will be made from University at 4 p. m. Supper at Monument House. Members of this club will please sign at Bartlett's before Friday noon. Dinner at expense of the club...
Senator Stanford recently said, in reference to Stanford University, which he has founded and endowed: "It will be built with a sole regard to the poor; no rich man's son or daughter will want to come there. My university will absord my wealth and be a monument to the memory of my son. The poor alone will be welcome."-Tuftonian...
...monument to Gen. McClellan will probably be erected at Princeton...
...anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first novelist who could dissect a woman. Defoe tried to analyze a woman of the lower grade in Roxana, and Peregrine Pickle is such another monument of failure. But it was Balzac who first traversed this dark - or should I say fair - continent...