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...Queen Vigtoria's birthday was celebrated at Montreal and Toronto yesterday...
There were established in America, said the lecturer, before the Declaration of Independence, nine colleges - Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, King's or Columbia, the University of Pensylvania, Brown, Dartmouth, and Queen's or Rutgers. The church element entered largely into them all. A wonderful fact was the establishment of Harvard when the wolf was still at its doors. The founders of those colonial colleges were animated with the desire to provide learned ministers, learned laymen and to educate the Indians, and with a love of higher education for its own sake. The methods attending their establishment were typified...
...Queen Victoria left Windsor yesterday morning for Osborne. The route along which she passed was carefully guarded by police and troops...
...Queen Victoria was able to attend the baptism of the infant daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Albany yesterday...
While at the University of Cambridge all the heads of colleges except two - the provost of King's and the president of Queen's - are uniformly known as "masters," there is a curious variety of title at Oxford. The head of Christ Church is the dean, who is in fact the dean of the cathedral of Oxford; All Souls, Keble, New and Wadham have wardens; Brasenose, Jesus and all the halls, or smaller colleges, have principals; Exeter and Lincoln have rectors; Oriel, Queen's and Worcester have provosts; Corpus Christi, Magdalen, St. John's and Trinity have presidents; University...