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Dr. Rodney True, professor of pharmacognosy at the University of Wisconsin, who is at present studying in the Graduate School, will give a series of twelve lectures on "Physiological Botany" during the second half-year.
A rough estimation of the number of books in the libraries of the principal American colleges shows that Harvard leads with 550,000 volumes; Chicago is next with 300,000; Columbia follows with 275,000, and the Cornell library contains 225,000 books.
Mr. B. S. Hurlbut started yesterday on a six weeks' trip through the Middle West and South, during which he will visit prominent Harvard graduate clubs and preparatory schools for the purpose of laying before them the interests and needs of the University. His visits to the graduate clubs will...
Mr. Hurlbut will speak in Albany tonight, and on his way to Chicago he will stop at Utica, Syracuse, Buffalo and Cleveland. From Chicago he will go to Milwaukee, Dubuque and thence to Washington, returning by way of Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and New York.
Several new courses are offered at Radcliffe for the coming half-year. In the English department, English 37, given by Dr. Maynadier, will trace the story of King Arthur from Malory to the present day; Mr. Fletcher will give English 9, a course on Spenser. In Greek 15, Asst. Professor...