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...more or less in the same line, as it has always been taken for granted that New York would be the seat of the national university. The writer in the Cynic opposes the idea of a national university in very positive language. "Hundreds of colleges in America owe their origin to certain wants that a national university could not supply. The small colleges are usually less expensive than the large. Men whose means are limited discover in these institutions the facilities which are suited to their needs; while those who shun excitement find in the same places the calm...
...than this one. The visit to the observatory may be regarded as the very crowning of the four-years' monument of study erected by every student of the college-as the final "finishing off," to use the phrase of the young ladies' seminary, of his college life. If the origin of the custom were investigated we have no doubt it would be found to have arisen at the time when a knowledge of astronomy was considered necessary for every educated gentleman, and when the good old system of prescribed courses sedulously guarded and maintained this as well as many other...
...refusal of the degree will be regarded as an aristocratic protest against electing a man of humble origin, no matter what his talents, to the executive chair. It will also be regarded as a piece of partisan spite by all fair-minded citizens. - [New Haven Union...
...room of the new Harvard Medical School building on Friday last. It was confined to that locality, although considerable damage was done elsewhere by the heat and smoke. The woodwork of the lecture room, including the amphitheatre seats, was totally destroyed, and the ceilings and fresco work ruined. The origin of the fire is a mystery, and was probably caused by spontaneous combustion among painters' rages. The building was damaged nearly $2000. The loss will fall on Woodbury & Leighton, the contractors, who are fully insured...
...Francis A. Walker delivered the first of his series of lectures on "Land Tenure" last night in Sever 11. The lecture was devoted to a statement of the origin of rent and its influence on the distribution of wealth. Gen. Walker held, of course, to the regular theory of diminishing returns, and showed that rent depended on the excess of production of the land over the production of the worst land in cultivation; that is, of the land which paid no rent. "Rent," he said, "arises from the fact of the varying degrees of production mutually contributing to the same...