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...publish in our columns this morning a communication from William Cranston Lawton which deserves careful perusal. Up to this time, as will be seen America has contributed little or nothing to the furtherance of archaeological research in Greece, and has in fact in this respect no enviable record. Now, however, preparations are making for the excavation of Delphi and its surroundings under the direction of American scholars and these excavations, if successful, will go far toward proving America's claim to scholarly recognition. No more fruitful field certainly could have been chosen for the initial work than the site...
...centuries, and they proposed higher and better achievements than had yet been attempted. To the present department they intended to add others from time to time, until the full scope of the university should be accomplished, and to give advantages principally to those who wish to engage in scientific research...
...walls of Sir Edwin Arnold, so well known to all cultured people as the author of "The Light of Asia." Mr. Arnold is the guest of President Eliot, and by the latter's request has very kindly delivered two lectures on topics related to his chosen field of research-on the Upanishad and the Mahabarhata. Besides their inherent interest these lectures have given us the opportunity and the pleasure of meeting Mr. Arnold as it were face to face...
...Professor Wright; and two on the Greek Theatre by Professor J. W. White. An elementary course in Greek composition to be known as Greek F will be given by Dr. Tarbell. Dr. Tarbell will also give a course of lectures on the present state of Archaeological Discovery and Research in Greece. Professor Goodwin will not have any courses next year...
...unfavorable action of Bismarck. The university is intended to have an individuality of its own, and not to conflict with Harvard, Yale, and similar institutions. It will be on a higher plan than these, in some respects like Johns Hopkins, and will be devoted to special advanced research, especially in technical studies. Its departments will include mathematics, physics. chemistry, biology, psychology, and the special study of languages, it will aim to take graduates from the colleges and fit them for the exceptional and rare work demanded of specialists in various branches of science. Special advantages will be offered to students...