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Professor Charles Eliot Norton has been appointed literary executor of the late Mr. John Ruskin. Mr. Ruskin and Professor Norton were very intimate and had known each other for almost fifty years. Professor Norton will go abroad for a month or more next summer to look over the literary remains of Ruskin. He will be assisted by Mrs. Severn, a co-executor, who was Ruskin's cousin, and his housekeeper...
...without its monotony both in the woods and at the desk. Hardiness, cheerfulness, power of observation are necessary qualities. The pay for those who do the summer work is twenty-five dollars a month. For thorough preparation two years at a forestry school and one year abroad are necessary...
...graduated in 1889 from Yale and then went abroad to study forestry in Germany and France. Upon his return he opened an office in New York as consulting forester. Among the estates which he surveyed and planned out are the Biltmore estate in North Carolina and Mr. Webb's preserves in the Adirondacks. He was shortly afterward appointed Chief of the Division of Forestry at Washington. Mr. Pinchot lectured at Yale last fall and much interest has since been aroused there...
After traveling abroad for a year, he accepted a professorship in economics at Harvard. He was Dean of Harvard College from 1876 to 1882 and Dean of the reorganized Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1890 to 1895. He had great influence as Dean and was a valuable adviser to the President. He was eminently successful in administrative work and contributed so much of his energy to it that he did not reach his highest possibilities in economic science. He devoted most of his attention to finance and taxation, and especially to the financial history of the United States...
...preparations for Cornell's exhibit at the Paris exposition have been completed and the exhibit will soon be sent abroad. The general university collections consist of over one hundred volumes, including several volumes of presidents' reports, registers, and various university publications. Sibley College and the College of Civil Engineering will have special exhibits, which will consist largely of charts showing the growth and nature of the courses of instruction...