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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interesting course of lectures has been successfully begun at Brown University The subject of the entire course is "Problems in City Government." Ex-Mayor Seth Low of Brooklyn, gave the opening lecture January 4. Professor Woodrow Wilson of Wesleyan gave the second on the evening of January 11. Professor Wheeler, of Yale, Prof. Hart, of Harvard, Profs. Chapin and Gardner, of Brown, and others are to follow, each discussing some particular phase of the question. The Glee and Banjo Clubs gave a very successful concert in Norwich, Conn., on Friday evening last. They are now making arrangements for an extended...
...audience must have been somewhat disappointed to hear Miss Ausder Ohe in Liszt's E flat concerto, which she gave last winter. It is a wonderful solo, probably the most brilliant for the instrument. Her abilities as an artist are well known, and though it was her second appearance in the same selection, she received several recalls...
...Phillips Andover Glee and Banjo Club gave its first concert of the year at Lawrence on Saturday...
...estate of Walter Hastings; about $170,000 for the furtherance of history, political science, and literature, from the will of Ellen Gurney; and two wholly unrestricted gifts $22,000 from John Cowdin and $30,000 from William Perkins. In addition to these, H. R. A. Carey, Sp. '89, gave $25,000 for the building of five courts particularly for the use of the base-ball nine; and the class of 1856 $6,000 as a permanent fund for the publication in serial form of undergraduate and graduate contributions to classical learning...
...immensely wealthy with such a revenue continually pouring into it. The riches excited the cupidity of Xerxes at the time of the Persian invasion, and it was his object to plunder the temple. At this time the nationality and unity which the oracle represented sank with obscurity. It still gave responses, but they were no longer true, and in Athens' wars they favored the enemies of Attica. Two hundred years after Christ, the last word concerning Delphi was heard, and from that time until comparatively lately it has remained buried in the deepest obscurity. In 1840, Dr. Ottfield Muller went...