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...Lowell has a good prospect of being elected lord rector of St. Andrews University as Mr. W. H. Mallock has withdrawn because he had no chance...
...outrageous Monday Lectureship, and Harvard least of all has been exempt from its attacks. The latest sufferer, however, is the University of Leyden, the students of which have been accused of the grossest immorality by Mr. Cook. Strange to say this accusation is indignantly denied by the rector of the university. But little weight, however, can be attached to such a denial in the face of the contrary assertion by the Lectureship. Besides, it is a notorious fact that college students everywhere are hopelessly immoral, and it is absurd to think that students at the University of Leyden form...
...Bologna, the ruling power was at first entirely in the hands of the students, they choosing the professors, while at Paris the lecturers alone had authority. The officers were originally a rector and a counselor, with civil officers, such as beadles, notaries, etc. The rector held his place for a year and the retiring rector chose his successor. Degrees of "doctor" and "magister" were given, though these titles were not originally used. The degree was given after an examination and bestowed the right of teaching upon the holder. It took six to eight years to get a degree...
...Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Syriac, Georgian, Cingalese, Greek, Latin, French, English, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Bohemian, Albanian, Danish and Italian languages were read in the halls of the Propaganda in Rome, last month, by the students. The occasion was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the celebration of the mass of the rector, Dr. Gustavo Courado...
...regarded in England as the American Tennyson, and during his visit to Oxford in 1869 the honorary degree of D. C. L. was conferred upon him. In Russia he was likewise popular, and was a member of the Russian Academy of Science. When nominated as Lord Rector of Edinburg University he was defeated by a small majority by Mr. Disraeli...