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...make the inquiry of a correspondent the excuse for presenting a brief history of the origin of the principal Greek letter societies, whose numbers have so increased and multiplied as to render a complete enumeration impossible. The list appended, therefore, embraces only the ten oldest and most influential societies which draw their membership principally to the Eastern States. The first of the Greek letter organizations, the venerable Phi Beta Kappa, was established at William and May, Dec. 5, 1776. There is a tradition that Thomas Jefferson was one of its founders. The original chapter has long been defunct...
...graduating class at Yale numbers 122. The average age is 22 years, 9 months, 11 days. The oldest is 39 Wiggins, the valedictorian, is the youngest, being only 19 years, 7 months old. Twenty-one will graduate under 21. Seventy-two are church members. There are 76 republicans in the class, 18 democrats and 24 "mugwumps." Of these 58 are free-traders and 44 protectionists. Thirty-eight hope to study law, 14 theology, 12 medicine, 5 banking, 7 teaching and 16 business...
Senator Edmunds sailed for England Saturday, in order to testify before a committee of the House of Lords in a suit affecting one of the oldest peerages of England...
...five buildings, good libraries, expensive apparatus, large gardens and well paid professors. Almost every university is noted for some special branch of science, as Kiev for medicine, Dorpat for astronomy, and Moscow for natural sciences, although at each all subjects are taught. The University of Moscow, the largest and oldest, was founded in 1755, and has a library of 175,000 volumes, 1,600 students, and 75 instructors. The yearly fees are about 100 roubles, or $75 in our money. The government gives 400,000 roubles per year towards its support...
...teaching and nourtering of children with us." Last Thursday evening the alumni of the school thus founded and to-day known as the Boston Latin School, assembled in the drill hall of the school building to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the oldest school on the continent. The Latin School is one year older than Harvard, and is the staunchest adherent to it among the preparatory schools. The performance of the evening was:- Prayer, Rev. J. F. Clarke, D. D.; Music; Presentation of Portrait of Mr. Epes Jargent Dixwell; Ode, Carmen Seculare, written...