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...proposed that a memorial bust of Carlyle be presented to Edinburgh University, of which institution he was an Alumnus and a Lord Rector. Eminent Scotchmen are on the committee which has been formed to carry forward the proposition, Lord Aberdeen being one of them...
...board of trustees of Cornell have voted that Minister James Russell Lowell, a former non-resident professor of the institution, should represent them at the 300th anniversary of the University of Edinburgh in April. Engrossed resolutions of congratulation will be forwarded...
...president has received the following letter from Scotland: The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, having now completed its three-hundredth session, it has been resolved to celebrate its tercentenary in Easter week next, upon the 16th, 17th and 18th April, 1884, and to invite delegates from the most celebrated universities, colleges, and learned societies in the world, to be present, on the occasion. We, the undersigned, therefore respectfully invite the Harvard Colleges to send a representative to be the guest of the University of Edinburgh during the days before mentioned...
...favored with an early answer to the invitation, and we request that if a delegate from the college is to honor us with his presence, his name and title may as soon as possible be communicated. In name and by authority of the University of Edinburgh...
...university honors itself in selecting Minister Lowell as its representative to attend the coming tercentenary celebration of the University of Edinburgh. A graduate of the college and still holding a professorship, on leave, at Harvard, Mr. Lowell thoroughly represents the best phase of Harvard culture, and the university may feel assured that its reputation abroad can be put heightened by its possessing such a representative...