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This is peculiarly the period of munificent generosity in public donations and particularly of gifts for educational purposes. Large endowments of new or long established institutions by the wealthy are of almost every day occurrence. A gift of this sort is hardly considered worthy of notice by the press unless it be among the hundred thousands. The example of Johns Hopkins in endowing the university of his name at Baltimore and of Judge Packer in founding Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, emphasized recently by the additional bequest of his son the late President Packer of the Lehigh R. R., of some...
...interesting one for investigation, either in its historical or its theoretical aspects. It is said to be a commonplace of criticism that no good thing can come out of a prize essay. A recent writer instances Prof. Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" as the only composition of this sort that has proved an exception to this rule. We do not know of any cases of prize essays from American colleges that can be called such exceptions. It is possible that there are such, however, and it may be that the list of Bowdoin prize dissertations might furnish such a case...
...various places, comments of which the following are specimens: "Good, very good!" "Oh, of course," "A good one," "Right you are," "A trifle exaggerated, friend," "How astonishing," etc., etc, Moreover, this patriotic person has taken pains to prevent his comments from being erased, by writing them in ink. This sort of thing is to be expected in the books of a public library, used by a miscellaneous class of readers; but it is humiliating that a student in Harvard College-for we cannot but assume that a student was the guilty person-should not know better than to commit such...
...classical departments do, to be sure, give readings from the ancient authors; and last year there was a very interesting course of lectures given by one of the instructors in philosophy. But beyond that, excepting the lectures connected with the gymnasium work, there has been nothing of the sort. Strangers are invited to speak or read before us, but of the home talent we have no advantage except by taking their courses. Now it would take but little labor for an instructor to prepare a general lecture on work with which he is so thoroughly familiar; and many...
...which at present is at a great loss to suggest a plan for resuscitating the industry of American ship-building. Such a professorship would be more appropriate however at one of our technical schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Great Britain at least has a professorship of this sort and Mr. Francis Elgar, naval architect of the city of London, has recently been unanimously elected to the chair of naval architecture in the University of Glasgow, which was recently endowed by Mr. John Elder. Mr. Elgar is a Fellow of the late Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine...