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...entire cabin accommodations on the S.S. "Finland" from New York, July 31 for San Diego and San Francisco via the Panama Canal are reserved by the Harvard Club for Harvard men and their friends. Two hundred and ninety passengers are already booked, including such names as Professor Moore, Professor Schofield, and the Hon. Robert Grant. An invitation to join the party is extended to all Harvard undergraduates...
...Harvard Associated Clubs in San Francisco has been postponed from August 13 and 14 to August 20 and 21. This change has been made for the reason that it has been necessary to substitute for the July 24 sailing of the "Kroonland" from New York a sailing of the "Finland" on July...
...Minister of Public Instruction, who, with his assistant, is appointed by the Czar. Russia was formerly divided into twelve educational districts over each of which a curator was placed as the representative of the Czar. In these twelve districts certain parts of Russia were not included, notably Finland, having charge of their own education. In 1863 Alexander II greatly improved the school system. In 1835 public education was under ecclesiastical rule but little was accomplished. In 1847 there were 2,500 schools, 27,000 teachers, 125,000 scholars. In 1864 Russia was divided in thirty-five educational divisions...