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...establishment of a chair of naval architecture in this country would certainly be a novel idea. If such a professorship existed in one of our universities, its incumbent might as an expert give valuable advice to the American Congress, which at present is at a great loss to suggest a plan for resuscitating the industry of American ship-building. Such a professorship would be more appropriate however at one of our technical schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Great Britain at least has a professorship of this sort and Mr. Francis Elgar, naval architect of the city of London...
...headed by Froude 391, who comes next to Browning, closely followed by Mr. Freeman, 241. Mr. Herbert Spencer is eight with 235 votes, Cardinal Newman, (for his "Apologia) is ninth with 192 votes, John Morley has (187, William Morris, 147; Professor Huxley, 115; and Mr. W. E. Gladstone, 107. Novel writing is thought to appeal greatly to the popular taste but the novelists are at a discount, none of them getting a tenth of Mr. Tennyson's votes, Black, Shorthouse, and Blackmore being the most favored in that way. Among the poets Swinburn, 262, comes next to Browning. The forty...
...better afford to guard with jealous care than the Harvard cheer. The Williams cheer is, we admit, unfortunate and far from edifying. That of Dartmouth is decidedly ludicrous, to say the least, but is more or less typical of the college whence it comes. Princeton's is novel and impressive. Yale's as usual is but a weakened imitation of Harvard's. Columbia's is representative of a large class of ingenious makeshifts, not inappropriate and often pleasing, the chief idea of which is the spelling out of the college name in the cheer. Of this variety there is almost...
...Abother novel by F. Marion Crawford, entitled "To Leeward," is soon to be published...
...Wendell desires that the next Junior theme should be a summary of the plot or substance of some play novel, or speech. The student may select his own subject with the approval of the instructor. The following were suggested by Mr. Wendell at the lecture yesterday : Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Ivanhoe, Matthew Arnold's Essay on the Functions of Criticism, Tom Jones, Burke's speech on Conciliation with America, and Webster's speech on the White murder trial...