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...University of Tennessee has elected Professor F. L. Scribner of the agricultural department, Washington, to fill its chair of botany and horticulture; Professor H. E. Summers of Cornell University to the chair of zoology and entomology, and Professor William E. Stone of Gottingen to be chemist at the Tennessee experimental station. All have accepted...
Harvard, founded in 1638, out dates a majority of the German Universities, as Halle was founded in 1694, Breslau, 1702; Gottingen, 1737; Berlin, 1810; and Bonn, 1815. Heidelberg, the oldest German University, was founded in 1386. - Cam. Chronicle...
...German newspapers announce that Mr. M. L. Perrin, M. A., a graduate of Harvard College, has been engaged by the University of Gottingen as assistant professor in the English department of its seminary for modern languages...
...George Bancroft, the historian. About 65 years ago Edward Everett suggested to President Kirkland that it would be well to send a young Harvard graduate to Germany to study. President Kirkland approved, and chose Bancroft, then eighteen years of age. He went to the university of Gottingen, the first American student who ever studied in Germany by the assistance of this college. It is interesting to notice that the great historian, the first holder of anything like a fellowship in America, was the founder of the most valuable fellowship in American colleges. He must have had a deep appreciation...
Prof. Bowen, of Harvard, is the only representative of American upon the committee to erect a statue to the memory of Schopenhuer. The committee includes such eminent men as Ernest Renan, Max Muller of Oxford, Brahmane Ragot, Rampal Sing, and Rudolf Von Thering the celebrated Romanist of Gottingen...