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...following is from the pen of "Gath," in the Cincinnati Inquirer : "The recent bequest of Mr. Phoenix to Columbia College carries its available and prospective funds up to nearly $5,000,000. It is the richest college in the United States. It leads Harvard by over $1,000,000. Yet when the two institutions are compared with each other, Columbia confessedly drops to a subordinate rank. Its Law School and its School of Mines have a national reputation, but in other respects it is not superior to any of the other colleges of the first-class. Mr. Perry Belmont...
...Physics 3 the next text book used will be Tait's "Recent Advances in Physical Science...
John Ennis, manager of the recent walking match in New York, had to mortgage his real estate in order to pay even a part of the prizes...
...criticisms of the London press upon Mrs. Langtry's recent performance in "She Stoops to Conquer" are at variance with one another. Some praise her acting in the highest terms, others pronounce it "fair" for a novice, (rather cautious) and others, still, are very condemnatory. It is said that the Prince of Wales was quite delighted with the acting of "the Jersey lily...
...have hitherto refrained from saying any thing about the Harvard Union under its present management, because that body has been in the past so peculiarly the protege of the college press that we feared the mention of it had grown stale by repetition; but the recent debates held in Sever call for a word of the warmest approval. The Union has shown its undoubted right to the support of the entire University, and by the event proved the wisdom of its choice of a presiding officer. It is growing in popularity and in influence; and it may now be entirely...