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President Porter of Yale in his address of welcome to Lord Coleridge said : "We are not the oldest nor the richest university in this country, but we do claim to represent the nationality of this country better than any other...
...first choice of position. The architects of the hall have insisted that the window shall be very light, - lighter than any now in the hall, - but the artist has nevertheless been able to use some rich coloring. He says of it himself, "For a light window it is the richest I have ever seen." Mr. LaFarge has not been allowed to use any of the curious white glass which appears in the window of the class of '60. The class of '54 may possibly place a window on the south side before commencement. Their subjects are Sophocles and Shakspere...
...university over too large a field. All this experience of Cornell and her present troubles are of value in showing the worth of the possession of a certain conservative tradition of scholarship for any college, and also in giving warning how easily it may befall that the richest endowment may come to naught if a false policy ever for a time dominate in the councils of a college...
...wish that his sons should have an easy time - holds decidedly that they ought to be, that it would be well if they could be, and that if they were the work would be better and not worse done. And he quotes with some energy the fact that the richest Scotchman who ever lived began life in New York as a shop assistant, with a university degree. The most efficient of continental mankind, the Prussian, agrees with the Scotchman, and so in theory does the hardest of earthly workers, the Chinese, though his notion of what education is partly puts...
Cornell is probably the richest college in the country, excepting perhaps Columbia. The wealth of Cornell is nearly eight million dollars, "but," says the Boston Post, "it is an exceptional institution if it doesn't still want more...