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...Goldwin Smith, and of Louis Agassiz; all by the painter Carpenter. Dr. William D. Wilson and John McGraw, (by Purdy,) Justin H. Morrill, (by Johnson,) and Peter Cooper (by a student at Cooper Union) are represented. There are portraits of Humboldt, Garret Smith, and Prudence Crandall, who organized a school for colored children in the early days of Abolitionism. Busts of Lincoln, by Vinnie Ream-Hoxie; of Prof. G. W. Greene, by Crawford; of President White, William C. Russell, and Dr. Wilson, form some of the historical pieces in the gallery of this young and flourishing college...
Prof. John W. White, chairman, and Thomas W. Ludlow, sec'y of the Archaeological Institute of America have sent the following circular to the presidents and faculties of American colleges: "The managing committee of the American school of classical studies at Athens begs to call to your attention the advantages offered by the school to graduates of the colleges cooperating in its support, and to request you to bring these advantages to the notice of your students, some of whom from year to year will, it is hoped, avail themselves of them. The committee asks you, also, to urge upon...
...school possesses, in Athens, a good working library containing already the most necessary books of reference in the various departments of classical study; and it provides for its students a large reading room, which is lighted in the evening, and heated in cold weather. No charge is made for tuition...
Oberlin has received a gift of $50,000, with which to support a school of music...
...private training school similar to St. mark's, and St. Paul's, is to be founded at Groton, Mass., this year. The sum of $100,000 has been guaranteed as a foundation for the school, and buildings will be erected in the spring. Rev. Phillips Brooks is said to be interested in the project...