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...influence of the university. Some of them will study in the regular class-rooms in the various departments, and the rest will receive extension instruction from members of the faculty. A new feature of the work this year will be to give the thousands of the city's immigrants first-hand information about the duties and ideals of Americans...
This action on the part of the Rock feller Foundation is the result of a careful, first-hand investigation, conducted by a commission of which Dr. Peabody and Mr. R. S. Greene were members. The report of this commission has been adopted by the Foundation as the basis of its future work in China...
...entirely destroyed by the German invaders, and of the treasures it contained. Unfortunately, no printed catalogue of the library was ever published, like the one so admirably compiled for the Bibliotheque Royale of Brussells by my late friend, the learned Pere Vanden Gheyn. I have, however, lately obtained some first-hand information concerning the library and its pitiful fate which may be of interest...
...entertainments for members of the union will be given in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock, when Mr. Arthur Woods '92, police commissioner of New York city, will speak on police and municipal affairs in the large cities. Mr. Woods has a first-hand acquaintance with his subject and is eminently qualified to talk on it. He was appointed to his present position last winter and since then has devoted much time to studying the administrative problems of his department. Mr. Woods was expected to speak here on November 18 but business an airs...
...which has not yet reached its full maturity. Without sincerity there is no great art, but sincerity alone is not quite the whole story. Mr. Butler-Thwing's poems are marked by delicacy of feeling and a certain just refinement of phrase, but they lack directness of inspiration and first-hand freshness of speech. They are earnest, eager, painstaking and -- traditional. The author has not yet quite released himself from his models,--for a guess, Tennyson in poetry and Pater in the prose. Of the poems, "The Death of Penelope" is by far the longest flight; and it is well...