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...meet with that appreciation which is encouraging. Some of the reformers will probably soon be in a state of animated suspension, as the faculty holds frequent and protracted sittings, evidently meaning business. A stone and iron bridge may in time replace the one destroyed, but for the present students and professors are put to great inconvenience...
...college, and finally held the chair of political science in Columbia College till his death in '72. Lieber was widely known as a writer on economics and International Law, but readers will now find most interest in his acquaintance with prominent men here and abroad-with Niebuhr, Humbolt, the present Emperor of Germany, and Jerome Bonaparte; with Story, Webster, Clay, Sumner, Agassiz and Longfellow. Among the many valuable letters chosen by Mr. Perry, one in particular gives Lieber's personal recollections of the battle of Waterloo, and others present a striking picture of the state of feelings in the slave...
...ready. It contains a list of the class officers; the class history, by A. A. Wyman; a prophecy, by B. B. Holmes; the poem, by M. H. Cushing and the oration by O. E. Perry. A full list of the members of the class with their occupations and present residences is appended. Subscribers are requested to call at once for their copies...
...other schools of all sizes. But only a few, those coming from Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, etc., were recognized as on a level with the Harvard graduates, the others being told that their degrees bore evidence of the fact that their training was about sufficient to rank them with the present Harvard freshmen. - [N. Y. Post...
...that it would not only make the base - ball games more interesting for the three or four larger colleges, but it would enable Amherst, Dartmouth, Williams, and perhaps one or two others to have a series of championship games which would certainly be more interesting for them than the present arrangement...