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...West of Cincinnati, after having given $150,000 for a new art museum for the city, now adds $100,000 more to that gift...
...every student of foreign character. It is, then, because of this that the vast majority of Americans feel the need and desire of education, and it is the need and desire of furnishing the poorer persons with this education, that caused the founding of the many colleges in the West. These colleges are mostly frequented by farmers' sons, or others, who must struggle hard for the coveted prize of learning. To suppose that these men could afford to leave their homes and come a thousand miles to attend such universities as Harvard, or Yale, or Princeton; to suppose that...
Vincennes "University" (Ind.,) is running a lottery, from which it expects to realize $20,000. It is allowed to do so under State charter. We congratulate our sister university upon this strikingly original plan of hers for advancing the cause of the "higher education" and good morals in the West...
Sullivan, the pugilist, is travelling through the West giving exhibitions. Ryan is in New York...
...friend of Lake Forest (Ill.) University says that institution is trying to become the Yale or Harvard of the West, and is now "in the condition of a great ship with all her sails spread and the sailors at their posts, but remaining still for need of wind." This leads the wicked Graphic to comment: "This is the first case recorded in which a fresh-water college has remained still for lack of wind...