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Accompanying the letterpress accounts are thirty-two excellent heliotypes of the various College buildings, and numerous woodcuts. The three pictures of students' rooms tell more of college life than any number of books...
...University at Berlin is 2839. They are divided among the faculties as follows : theological, 168; legal, 1163; medical, 345; philosophical, 1163. There are 210 foreigners in the list, including 42 from America. Besides these matriculated students, there are 2200 other persons in attendance on the lectures, belonging to the various technical and art schools of the city. The corps of instructors numbers 210, nearly half of whom are in the philosophical faculty...
...proposed to devote each alcove to some special department, filling it with books upon the subjects of that department, and thus making it a favorite working-place for men pursuing such studies. Here they will find a thousand or more volumes which they can consult at will, together with various aids to their particular study, and the companionship of congenial minds...
...President we have received the Annual Report for 1876 - 77. The Report calls attention to the fact that this year, for the first time in the history of the University, all departments have the same term, vacation, recesses, and holidays, - a fact which tends to make the various departments "feel themselves to be co-ordinate members of one body, - the University." The Report also discusses the cost of education at Harvard, the change of stewards at Memorial Hall, post-graduate instruction, voluntary recitations, the new requirements for admission, and other matters of importance. An extended notice of the Report will...
...criticism and afterwards to the interpretation of a minuet of Mozart or a scherzo of Beethoven by one who himself ranks high as a critic and a composer. Mr. Paine is willing that all those not regularly members of the elective, but wishing to hear him play the various movements analyzed, should be present during the hour. The lectures are given at half past one, Wednesdays, in Lower Boylston...