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...Waldstein's duties as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, England, and his lecture courses in the University there, will not prevent other visits, in the lecturing season, to his native city. The solid, and at the same time popular, instruction given by this scholarly and eloquent speaker is just what is needed in America to help direct aright the awakened taste for art in the community. Dr. Waldstein's lecture was repeated last Monday as the first of a series of talks on classical archaeology to be given this winter at Johns Hopkins University. Three lectures will...
...nominations made by Speaker Carlisle for the positions of regents of the Smithsonian Institute include the president of West Virginia University and one of the fellows of Yale College...
...notes, when, suddenly the steam goes whang, clash, bang. A lull ensues, and all the men huddle around the desk in vain endeavors to catch all that is said. Then the noise begins again, and continues with variations and slight interruptions throughout the hour, and perhaps day, Meanwhile the speaker is annoyed and listeners are distracted. Some remedy ought to be known to the engineer or superintendent of buildings. A removal of the nuisance would cause much less worry and more satisfaction in many lectures...
Toward nine o'clock, one of these officers, the "Commander of the Commers," drew his sword, and slapping the flat side of the blade on the table, called for "Silentium" and introduced the first speaker, one of the Professors. This gentleman delivered a short address upon Luther and his work, and concluded by calling upon those present to sing "Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott." The whole assembly rose, and led by the orchestra sang the first verse of Luther's grand triumphal hymn. a few minutes were now spent in conversation and drinking of beer, and than the Commander...
...choice will be all literary, and not in the least political. The election of Mr. Lowell will be a graceful compliment to a distinguished scholar, humorist and University man, from a country which is always receiving English visitors with the warmest welcome. Mr. Lowell's charming gifts as a speaker cannot but be welcome in the holder of an office, where to make a speech is almost the only public duty...