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Great disappointment was felt that the 'Varsity did not come out. There will be opportunities enough, however, to observe their prowess. The Yale crew, on the other hand, has been on the water for three weeks. Last year the season opened on the fifteenth, a day later than this year...
...Isidore, Hrabanus Maurus; the monkish encyclopedias of Vincent de Beauvais, of Bartholomaeus de Granville, of Jacobus Magnus, of Mathias Farinator, the speculations of Pierre d'-Ailly, Nicholas of Cusa and John Pico of Mirandola. This field of thought is still more richly represented among the books of the fifteenth century by the work of Agrippa and Paracelsus and their extravagant compeers. Whatever pertains to the superstition of science seems to have had for Mr. White an especial interest...
...first number of the ninth volume of the CRIMSON will be issued next Monday, February fifteenth. The subscription price for the remainder of the year will be $1.75. Orders for the paper may be left at the office of the Co-operative Society, or with members of the CRIMSON board...
...ascertaining the full title, I don't know whether No. 2816 is the Chronicle of Fernando Lopez or not. If it is so, he that buys it at its weight in gold will make a cheap bargain. . Lopez in my opinion, was the first historical writer of the fifteenth century, and his account of the battle of Aljubarrata is surpassed by nothing known to me in the literature of the middle ages. I hope it will be deterre by some scholar, and that the Sunderland copy if it is really the work I am speaking of, may find...
...universities of France were swept away by the Revolution, but a new system of education has since sprung up, the centre of which, established at Paris, has direct control over all the educational matters of the country. Of the Plussial universities, those of Prague and Heldeioerg, founded in the fifteenth century, are the oldest. The educational system of Germany ranks among the very best, and is admirably adapted for the advancement of science and philosophy. England has four noted universities, Cambridge, Oxford, London, and Burham, the two former having early come into prominence by espousing the cause of the Barous...