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...Scotland, instead of public schools there are parochial schools. The university is in a city where the students, poor, live by their wits, living scattered about as our freshmen are obliged to do. Instruction is given mainly in lectures, examinations are lenient...
...James R. Lowell is candidate for the Rectorship of St. Andrews University, Scotland. His opponent is Mr. W H. Mallock, the author, who is at present the favorite...
England, with a population of 25,000,000, only sends 5000 students to her two universities, while Scotland, with a population of 4,000,000, has 6500 university students, and Germany, with 43,000,000 of people, has 22.500 students. In the two latter cases, however, the proportion of foreign students is quite large...
...CATHEDRAL TOWNS OF ENGLAND, IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. By Thomas W. Silloway and Lee L. Powers. Boston: A. Williams & Co." This book is a pleasant account of a journey through England, Ireland and Scotland, which has grown out of a series of articles published in one of the Boston papers. The introductory notice sufficiently explains the plan of the book: "Instead of simply recording personal observations, the labor was extended by the incorporation of historic and biographical facts, the authors hoping that, while their work would be valuable and interesting as a compend to those familiar with the facts, it would...
John C. Ralston of Milwaukee, foreman of a soap factory, has received notice that he has fallen heir to a fortune of $3,000,000, left by his great-grandfather in Scotland...