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Among the recent treasures placed in the library is a cast of Cromwell's face. It was presented by Prof. Norton who received it from his friend Thomas Carlyle...
...recent sale of autographs in Paris, 1,430 f. was paid for a bundle of letters of Rouget de Lisle ; a letter of Darwin's brought 55 f. ; of Schiller, 100 f. ; Wagner, 100 f. ; George Sand, 120 f. ; Paganini, 50 f. ; Beranger, 49 f. ; and Gambetta...
...recent lecture on Evolution, delivered in Pittsburg, President McCosh said : "My first position is the certainty of evolution. Evolution is but the coming of one thing out of another. No scientific man under thirty years of age in any country denies it, to my knowledge. To oppose it is to injure young men. I am at the head of a college where to declare against it would perplex my best students. They would ask me which to give up, science or the Bible. There is a general progression in nature. The theory that the world was once a vapor from...
...subject upon which the Seniors in the Yale Law School, who compete for the Townsend prize of $100 must write, are as follows : 1. "Regulation of Inter-State Commerce." 2. "Strikes." 3. "Recent Decision of the Supreme Court on the Civil Rights Bill." 4. "Government Control of Telegraph." The graduating theses must be written upon the following subjects : 1. "Development of the Law of mortgages." 2. "Estoppel by Silence." 3. "Joint Ownership by Chattles." The subject for those studying for the degree of M. L. is : "The Consolidation of Railways and the Government of Cities." For those...
Students of English 2 will be interested to learn of the publication of a pamphlet on the Shakspeare-Bacon controversy by the distinguished Shaksperean scholar, Dr. E. Engel. He severely ridicules the writings of Miss Delia Bacon and Miss Pott, and classes them with the recent discovery that Hamlet was a woman in disguise...