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...presentations to be controlled by the faculty of the smaller college, and awarded to deserving graduates. The university could never, and should never, he says, seek to control the smaller college, for the independence of the relationship would be one of the greatest merits of the plan. Forty thousand dollars a year, he thinks, would be the cost of doing this, and furnishing yearly our graduate department with a strong working force of scholars; and ultimately resulting in "turning over to the colleges a large part of the teaching now done in our undergraduate department, and thus generally enabling...
...toward the necessary expenses. The school was founded. At the present moment it has the active assistance of no less than sixteen colleges. It owns a fine site on Mt. Lycabettus, presented by the Greek government; has in process of erection a commodious and solid building to cost twenty thousand dollars; posesses a library of between fifteen hundred and two thousand volumes; is free from debt, and has an established reputation. Cholera closed the Levant to travellers for one of these years; but no less than eighteen students have been in regular attendance and scores of travellers have enjoyed...
...announcement a commodious building is already in process of erection, and it is proposed to secure the services of the well-known archaelogist, Mr. Charles Waldstein, as director of the school. But to secure these much desired results, it is necessary that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be subscribed to the support of the school. As sixteen different colleges are to contribute, it is to be hoped that the needed funds will be shortly forthcoming. With the school established on a firm basis, with an able corps of instructors, and under such a director as Mr. Waldstein...
...secure it in its permanent usefulness the school must now be intrusted to the care of a larger public. It is proposed to raise a general fund of a hundred thousand dollars for the development and endowment of the school and in particular to employ a director of the highest fitness and ability. Our readers need no introduction to the archaeologist, Charles Waldstein, a native of New York, but now connected with the University of Cambridge, England, and with the Fitzwilliam Museum. The committee in charge of the school wishes to redeem the character of America, and to secure...
Given a membership of a thousand and suppose a daily attendance of a hundred; any given hundred would return to the club only once in ten days, and this if all the thousand frequented the club. As a matter of fact, only a small proportion would use the club at all and in either case its clique-demolishing work would be small...