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...Williams College Alumni Association of Boston had its seventeenth annual reunion and dinner in that city on Tuesday evening, President Franklin Carter being among the guests. The venerable Mark Hopkins sent his regrets at his inability to be present, and added: "I would like also, if I might, to say a word in favor of the college idea as it has existed in this country-that is, the idea of an education distinctively liberal. It has been toward the realization of that idea that my life work has been devoted. My wish has been to have here an institution that...
...attention has been called to the fact that a lot of bogus summons, purporting to come from the Dean, were sent out to various members of the different classes. Just why any persons of intelligence sufficient to entitle them to a place in the college should wish to indulge in such a practical joke it is really hard to understand. Certainly, as far as the joke was concerned, nothing could be sillier; and the only amusement of the inventor or inventors of this piece of mischief must have sprung from the knowledge that they...
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...
...often brought us delicious cakes, which had been sent him from his native country, and once he presented us with a small bag of dates and almonds sent him by the monks of Mt. Sinai, among whom he received his early education. The bag, in shape like a large sausage, was made of the prepared skin of some animal, into which the fruit and nuts had been pounded solidly. When eaten it was cut like an ordinary sausage and the skin peeled off. One evening he came to our house much terrified. He said that he had been attending...
...Journal of Education lately proposed to its readers to send in lists of the "ten greatest living English men of letters" with the greatest work of each. Of such lists 534 were sent. The authors were ranked by the number of votes each received and the first forty would be considered as the "Immortals" of England, if the scheme was carried out. But it must be remembered that this journal appeals mainly to the great middle-class of England, and though no doubt well educated, yet its literary taste or judgment is not of the highest. Mr. George McDonald...