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...whom 89 are professors and assistant professors. At the end of President Eliot's first year, the total University funds were $2,387,232. By the report of last year they were shown to be $4,803,938, an increase of $2,416,706. As these figures show, a very decided gain has been made over Yale in every way. At our sister college the number of students has increased 26 per cent., here 52 per cent...
...must take out of the mass of ephemeral, and comparatively insignificant happenings, the things lasting and significant. In other words, we must put into our work the touches of nature which make our characters alive, and not cunningly painted figures. These touches, which alone give worth to a sketch, show man as he is, and always has been. They are nothing but the grains of enduring truth taken out of the chaff of circumstances. And around every one of us is enough chaff worth winnowing...
...Springfield meeting was cited the case of a father who sent one son to Yale and the other to Amherst, and found the latter's bills the larger. Of course no generalization could be ventured upon one such individual case, but we suspect that a careful comparison would show that, however much the average expenditures of a class in the larger college may exceed the average in the smaller, the sum required by a self-respecting young man is not a great deal more in the one case than in the other...
...kind of composition which we slight most, is that in which a number of related facts are gathered, and put into intelligible form. It is commonly said that the man who does this sort of work in an historical essay, or biographical sketch, shows neither thought nor originality. Yet such a statement is far from true. For it is no light matter to take a given number of facts about an affair of ordinary interest and so arrange them as to hold the attention of a reader. In one way, such is the task of an artist in making colors...
...funds of the academical department show an increase of about 40 per cent. In 1871 they amounted to $689-677, and in 1885 to $960,257. Since 1871 $350,000 have been added to the university funds, which now amount to $485,493. The funds of the Theological Department have increased $188,523, or about 75 per cent. An $81,000 fund for the Art School, and a $10,000 fund for the Law school have also been added. The funds of the College in 1871 were $1,227,305. By the 1885 report they were...