Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...always the same, but different aspects are taken up at each meeting. Professor James is now in Scotland, but will not lecture until Professor Royce arrives, when he will have exclusive charge of the Edinburgh University, while Professor Royce meets the students of the other three universities. While in Great Britain, Professor Royce has agreed to give one lecture on some philosophical topic, not yet chosen, before the University of Glasgow and one before Manchester College, Oxford...
...present year is characterized at the University of Pennsylvania by extraordinary activity in the direction of building. The new museums have been completed and occupied. They form a most striking addition, from an architectural point of view, to the group of university buildings, and offer abundant room for the great collections of Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities which it has hitherto bee impossible even to unpack. The biological department has completed its "Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school...
...will be gave from this collection such books as were not already to be found on the shelves of the Harvard College Library, but the greater part of the collection remained in the hands of his heirs. This part consists of over seven hundred volumes, many of them of great interest to the student of Romance Languages, not only of course by reason of their intrinsic value, but also because they contain annotations by Professor Lowell which reflect his originality of criticism and thorough scholarship...
...shelf room for books, study rooms for professor and advanced students, increased space for administration, and a better reading room. He says: "It is a singular fact that, at a time when the building of libraries has become a favorite form of public benefaction, Harvard has not received any great gift for a library building. It is useless to expect an ample equipment and a generous building from any other source." In summarizing the requirements, Professor Lane puts beauty first because he believes "that the Library does not take the place it should in the life of the University...
...beginning of this season, West Point lost valuable time by failing to secure a head coach, but has now succeeded in developing a strong eleven. Annapolis has had a great number of coaches, among them P.D. Haughton '99, C. H. deSaulles, W. Hickok and P. Dashiel McMaster has trained their team since the Harvard-Yale game...