Word: filles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University has been extremely fortunate in securing, to fill Prof. Auderson's place, Dr. David J. Hill, late president of Bucknell University, Pennsylvania. He brings with him a brilliant reputation, and an energy which will give a new impetus to Rochester's progress. He is a profound student, a trained and skilful administrator and an author of text-books which have been adopted by some of the leading universities of the country...
...Eight, or six, or four,- the books that every cultured man must know, are easily selected. They cannot be read for mere amusement; rather for delight, a delight that grows steadily with time and study. Beyond these very few, every man, according to his associations and individual taste, will fill out a different hundred. For instance,- Prof. Norton said,- a gentleman in England of the richest acquirements and the ripest and widest culture had recently sent to him his own "hundred best." Twenty, Prof. Norton had never heard of; he had never opened but twenty nor read largely except...
...George Bushnell of New Haven has been elected to fill the vacant place in the corporation of Yale. The corporation at present consists of twenty members, ten of whom must be Connecticut clergymen. Of the others six are elected by graduates of five years' standing, two are always the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of this State, and the remaining two the President and Secretary of the university. Dr. Bushnell takes the place of the late Rev. G. J. Tillotson...
...little understood by the great mass of our people. To those who may wish to obtain an idea of the increasing difficulty of this question and of the attempts made by the government to meet it, we recommend this article. The usual valuable notes and summaries of recent cases fill the remaining pages of the number...
...relieve the solemnity of the prose articles, there is only one contribution in verse. Mr. Corbin shows great delicacy in his lines "At Midnight." There is a suggestion of originality that is refreshing. Book notices and the Advocate's brief fill the remaining pages of the number...