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...enjoy the tennis courts, base ball fields and foot ball fields. Besides, an opportunity is offered to practice track athletics, swimming and boating. The athletic department will be under the direction of Mr. A. A. Stagg of Yale. The following speakers will address the convention: Rev. John A. Smith, Edinburgh, Scotland; Rev. George F. Pentecost, D. D.; Professor L. T. Townsend, of Boston University; Prof. Reven F. Weidner, D. D.; Major D. W. Whittle and Mr. D. L. Moody...
...list comprises about four hundred and sixty names, and the year of their graduation ranges from 1642 to 1879. The degrees conferred are D. D, LL.D, D. C. L., D. D., Doctor of Music, and Doctor of Literature. Oxford has given degrees to eleven Harvard men, Glasgow, to three, Edinburgh, to ten, Aberdeen, to five, Cambridge, to six, and Trinity, to five, while the remaining graduates received their degrees from American colleges. It is interesting to note that Richard H. Dana, of the class of '37, received the honorary degree of D. C. L. from Hobart college, which...
...value of modern ships of war is doubtful:- Edinburgh Review, vol. 162, p. 234. (a) They have not been tested in any great naval engagement:- Porter in North American Review, January and February, 1889; (b) they are constantly being rendered useless by new inventions:- Forum, vol., 6, p. 370; Lippincott's, vol. 29, p. 346; (c) other means of warfare would be more serviceable to the United States:- Porter, North American Review for February, 1889, p. 213; Speech of Ingalls, Congressional Record, vol. 18, p. 108; speech of King, Congressional Record...
...chairs of the Edinburgh Medical faculty are each worth $17,000 a year. The professorships at Glasgow in Greek Latin and Mathematics are each worth about $9,000 yearly. These figures suggest the propriety at least of increased salaries in American colleges...
...Annexation would add greatly to the resources of this country, in wheat lands, forests, furs, fisheries, coal, iron, etc.- No. Am. Rev., Feb., 1889, 54-73; Science 3, 756; Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine...