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...every 5000, in England, takes a college course; in Scotland, one in 615; in Germany, one in 213: in the United States...
...cause of the Barous against the King. These universities have always been generously endowed, and the scholarships and fellowships of Oxford now amount to about L500,000 a year. The University of Dublin consists of but one college, Trimty, and the curriculum is similar to that of Oxford. Scotland also possesses four freak universities, St. Andrews, Glasgow, A Bergen, and Edlburgh, and is well supplied with other institutions of learning, most of which were founded in the fifteenth century. These colleges are more crossly a lined to the German system of education, than to the English...
...upon the graduates in the various departments of the university and finally the exercises closed with the conferring of honorary degrees upon the following distinguished gentlemen: L. L. D. to James Russell Lowell, Prof. F. J. Child, Prof. Simon Newcomb of Washington, and Prof. R. C. Jebb of Glasgow, Scotland; D. D. to J. Henry Thayer of Cambridge, and John F. Moors of Greenfield; and A. M. to william Green Binney...
...Billings, Assistant Surgeon General U. S. A., Professor W. H. Green of Princeton, Dr. Fordyce Barker of New York, and Principal Dawson of Montreal. At the banquet Prof. Lowell responded for literature. "There is no country in the world that owes so much to literature as Scotland. I bring with me the felicitations of three American universities, and their Godspeed to the older university here. We feel as strong as ever that blood is thicker than water. I warmly reciprocate-and feel that I am expressing the feelings of Americans in so doing-the expressions of friendship used at this...
...president has received the following letter from Scotland: The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, having now completed its three-hundredth session, it has been resolved to celebrate its tercentenary in Easter week next, upon the 16th, 17th and 18th April, 1884, and to invite delegates from the most celebrated universities, colleges, and learned societies in the world, to be present, on the occasion. We, the undersigned, therefore respectfully invite the Harvard Colleges to send a representative to be the guest of the University of Edinburgh during the days before mentioned...