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...hall has been built for the Wesleyan chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, and is ready for plastering. It will, no doubt, be occupied in season for the summer reception on Tuesday of commencement week. The building is of brick and wood, with a slight suggestion of "Queen Anne" about it, and is in some respects superior to any society hall at Wesleyan...
...short time since, the Queen's scholars at Westminister performed the "Trinummus" of Plautus...
...Queen's College is remarkable for the number of quaint customs it retains, among them the summoning the students to meals by trumpet instead of bell, and bringing in the Boar's Head with carols, while every Eastertide the Bursar presents each member of the college with a needle and thread accompanied by the suitable motto "Be Thrifty." The library is one of the largest among the colleges and contains over 60,000 volumes besides many rare manuscripts. New College belies its name, as it was founded in 1586 and besides the usual amount of plate and relics...
...institution been in better condition and freer from vice or disorder. The college has a history dating back half a century, and is noted as having been the only college in the South which did not close its doors during the civil war. It is the successor of Queen's College, which was conducted before the American Revolution...
...careful inspection. The columns are of marble from Kilkenny. The reredos is said to be one of the finest church decorations in Europe. Here, also, there are more portraits, in short there are several of them in each of the principal rooms. The best picture extant of the foundress, Queen Elizabeth, is in the Trinity collection. Last of all there is the room of the director of the library; it is small and of no special interest in itself, but in it stands the chair of Charles Lever, the novelist. He sat in it when he wrote "Charles O'Malley...