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...inaugural dinner of the Bristol University College Club, a few weeks ago, Sir John Lubbock made a most interesting speech on the subject of a higher education. He claimed that the sciences and modern languages did not receive their full share of attention as statistics showed. In the course of his remarks he expressed the following views on the warfare now going on between the classics and the sciences: Five-and-twenty years ago, when the hours of study were fewer and the examinations less numerous, a boy had far greater opportunity of following up any special task than...
...Saturday evening, Mr. Samuel Norris Jr. of the class of '83, and now a member of the law school, delivered at Bristol, R. I., his native place ,a most instructive address on "Martm Luther and the times which preceded and followed him." The town Hall in Which Mr. Norris spoke was well filled by an appreciative audience despite the disagreeable weather...
...Boston Institute of Technology, mining and engineering department, left Boston last evening on a scientific expedition to Virginia, West Virginia, and East Tennesee, taking in the wonderful caverns of Luray, Natural bridge and the New river mining section of Virginia and the mountains of East Tennesee tributary to Bristol and Johnson City...
Clevedon Hall, the residence of Sir Arthur Elton, situated near Bristol, England, has been destroyed by fire. A portion of the library, which was considered one of the most valuable in England, was also burned...
...Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, R. I., is building the steam launch for the University Crew. Mr. Alexander Agassiz made the contract for it. The cost will be $3,600. The craft will be so arranged that the machinery can be controlled from the standing room forward or aft, and the direction can be changed without swinging round, as she will be sharp at both ends. The Company guarantee a light boat, that will run as fast as an eight can row and that will not make a wake which will interfere with the shells...