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running expenses at about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. If a permanent building is desired, a larger sum must be secured. The Greek government, which has all along treated the Americans with especial favor, has offered a piece of land for the purpose. A committee was appointed to consider the best means of raising the required funds. Prof. Gurney of Harvard resigned from the managing committee. The next director will be Prof. Lewis R. Packard of Yale, who is to be succeeded after one year by Prof. J. C. Van Benschoten of Wesleyan, and after two years by Prof...
...interrupted first, by the dark-skinned man with the earrings and silk handkerchief knotted around his throat. He knocks softly, and entering mysteriously, informs you that he has just arrived from Havana on the steamer, and has, with infinite pains and danger succeeded in smuggling a few thousand cigars, which he happens to have in the bundle that he carries under his arm, and of which he will let you have a hundred or so as a special favor. Scarcely is this dreadful creature disposed of, leaving an odor of garlic behind him that lingers in spite of pipes...
There are in the several colleges about three thousand men. Of these, it is estimated twenty-five hundred are the sons of the aristocracy and country gentlemen who are not fitting themselves to earn a living, but only to guide and adorn society. Most of these men come up to university, not to give much time to academic work, but to receive that air of refinement and that touch of grace which tradition says one only gets at Oxford or Cambridge. Their academic work has been done already at one of the great public schools or under private tutors. Then...
Students' Songs-The ever popular book "Students' Songs," keeps up its constant sale. More copies of it have been sent away to friends than of any book ever published in Cambridge. The new edition comprises the twenty-first thousand, five thousand copies having been sold in less than six months. The compiler, Mr. Wm. H. Hills, class of '80 is one of the editors of the Boston Daily Globe. "Students' Songs" can be had of Amee Bros., of Sever, or of the co-operative society...
Students' Songs-The ever popular book "Students' Songs," keeps up its constant sale. More copies of it have been sent away to friends than of any book ever published in Cambridge. The new edition comprises the twenty-first thousand, five thousand copies having been sold in less than six months. The compiler, Mr. Wm. H. Hills, class of '80 is one of the editors of the Boston Daily Globe. "Students' Songs" can be had of Amee Bros., of Sever, or of the co-operative society...