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Felix Auerbach has recently furnished to Nord und Sud an interesting account of the developments of the German Universities within the last fifty years, based on carefully compiled statistics of the thirty-two Universities which have existed within the boundaries of the present German Empire...
Yale, with Harvard, agreed to play in Hanover if Princeton would play either in Hanover or on neutral grounds. Princeton could not enter into such an agreement on account of faculty regulations in regard to absences. Hence, Dartmouth withdrew, and not on account of any refusal from Yale as the article stated...
...Mascarene, daughter of Rev. Edward Holyoke, who was president of Harvard College from 1737 to 1769, in a letter to her husband dated Jan. 30, 1764, gives the following account of the Hollis fire which took place in that year...
...three places, and Hollis Hall is burnt much at the Southwest corner, there was nothing saved in old College except a bed or two, the whole Library, except some books lent out and Mr. Hollis's last donation, were demolished, the whole apparatus. Mrs. Hancock who lodgd out on account of the storm lost everything except the cloths she had on, this is a most terrible accident, this Library in which were so many valuable Books ancient manuscripts, the Labour of the Learned, and the work of ages, in a few hours turned to ashes. Our College is now poorer...
...contribute a short essay on Jules Grevy. Although Mr. Cohn uses English uncommonly well for a foreigner, yet his work has not the same finish which we would demand in the case of a native. Nevertheless, in spite of his disadvantages he has succeeded in giving a very readable account of President Grevy. The career of this famous French statesmen, who has been prominent for so many years, is shown to be most interesting. Mr. Berenson writes a criticism of the comedy, The Revisor, by the Russian author Gogol. In spite of the fact that Mr. Berenson does not grasp...