Word: arts
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...higher branches has been largely increased by the widespread reputation of its history department. With eighteen regular courses, and eight instructors entirely devoted to this specialty, besides the collateral instruction in history given to a considerable extent in courses in the ancient and classical languages, in ancient art and in political and financial science, the opportunities offered to the students in this branch of learning are already of the best. Modern history, particularly that of America has as summed at Harvard to a considerable extent the position that its importance demands...
President White of Cornell University has received a letter from Hiram Sibley, making the following donations to the university: For an additional building for the Sibley Mechanic Art School, $30,000; for increased equipment, $8,000; for an increased endowment for the same department...
...article is Miss Fanny Storie's "Diary of an American Girl in Cairo during the War of 1882." The illustrated papers are "A French-American Seaport," which is an account of the Island of St. Pierre off Newfoundland; "Sailors' Snug Harbor," by Franklin H. North; "American Wild Animals in Art," by Julian Hawthorne; and a scholarly paper by Edward Eggleston on "Commerce in the Colonies." In fiction, Henry James' new story, "Lady Barberina," in this number, concerns itself with the complications of marriage settlements; Mr. Cable's "Dr. Sevier" is continued; and Robert Grant's story of "An Average...
...quorum ! It may be, however, that with admirable foresight the enterprising officers have arranged a system of the telephones so that although each man meets in his own room, there may be yet some connecting link to bind them all in that united, active whole, which, like the Art Club, has done much good work for Harvard...
...interesting account of the director's house and the library of the school. This has recently received large additions, "so that when the books now ordered shall have been received it will number about eight hundred volumes (exclusive of periodicals and pamphlets), illustrating the history, geography, antiquities, and art of ancient Greece. Works of this kind are expensive, and at the end of the second year the books in the library obtained by direct purchase will have cost $2500. Of this sum the committee voted from its funds $2000." The remaining $500 was the gift of a friend, whose name...