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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Upsilon fraternity will be held at Cornell, next week. An elaborate program has been prepared. Charles Dudley Warner will lay the cornerstone of the new hall of Chi chapter. Professor W. W. Goodwin, orator; Professor Goodwin Smith, essayist; Professor Alpheus S. Hardy, poet; and the Hon. Francis M. Finch, author of "The Blue and the Gray," ode-writer. Judge Albion W. Tourgee will preside at the banquet...
...Isaac Burk, the well-known botanical author, has presented the University of Pennsylvania with his large and valuable herbarium...
...Isaac Burk, the well-known botanical author, has presented the University of Pennsylvania with his large and valuable herbarium...
Commenting on the institution, the Nation says : "From its foundation onward, Edinburgh has been growing in honor and usefulness. Long ago it was called the modern Athens. Stewart, the author of the "Antiquities of Greece" is said to have suggested this epithet because of the resemblance in the aspect of the two cities, and perhaps this circumstance has had its influence upon the architecture of Edinburgh. But certainly the spirit of Athens does not require for its embodiment an acropolis or a temple. We must look beyond the natural or the structural advantages of a city if we would determine...
...Atlantic reminds one of the better days of this magazine. Richard Grant White contributes the first of two articles on "The Anatomizing of William Shakespeare," giving an interesting study of that author's life and writings. Henry Cabot Lodge writes an excellent article on Willian H. Seward, and Miss Harriet W. Preston discourses on "Matthew Arnold as a Poet." Prof. J. Lawrence Laughlin's article on "The Selver Danger" is a timely one, as is also the article on "The Progress of Nationalism," by Edward Stanwood. The serial stories by Mr. Crawford and Dr. Mitchell are continued, as well...