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...Cobden Club, of England, offer a silver medal, under the auspices of the Harvard Finance Club, to any present under-graduate of Harvard College for the best essay on some economic subject...
...good results that can be attained by college institutions established for the encouragement of intellectual pursuits have been amply shown by the success that has attended the Harvard Finance Club. Through the efforts of this society the Cobden Club of London was induced to offer a prize for the best essay on subjects appropriate to the needs and purposes of the organization, and, through the prospect of the prize thus offered, the Finance Club were able to promote great interest and valuable competition in the work in which they are exerting themselves. It is certainly a compliment to the society...
...reported that Barnum has made an offer to Oscar Wilde for the latter to sit on top of Jumbo and ride in the street processions. If, instead of Wilde sitting on the elephant, Jumbo were to sit on Wilde, the result would be more satisfactory to the people, and it wouldn't hurt Jumbo much. - [Texas Siftings...
...machines. The New York business man needs, after the bustling life down town, the rest and refreshment of some literary pursuit; hence, our lecture courses on the different literatures are intended to foster a literary taste, and implant a desire to know something more about those new worlds that offer so fair a literary fruitage...
...with a favorable eye. But there is another field of scholastic work little tilled thus far among us, where the widest facilities of research in every direction should be ready at hand, namely, the university or post-graduation curriculum. If now, as is apparently the case, Columbia means to offer to college-bred men superior facilities in the higher departments of literature and philology, I, for one, hail this step as a decided advance. The intellectual tide is setting ever more strongly toward New York, and here, more than anywhere else, we shall, in the immediate future, need institutions affording...