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...Fellowship at University College. Oxford, where he remained as lecturer until 1882, when he accepted a professorship at Edinburgh. Dr. Butcher was a member of the Scottish universities commission from 1889 to 1896, and served on the royal commission on university education in Ireland in 1901. He is well-known in this country through his writings, which include a prose translation of the Odyssey, compiled with the co-operation of Andrew Lang. "Demosthenes" in the Classic Writers series. "Some Aspects of the Greek Genius," and "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and the Fine Arts...
...most striking feature of the statement is the deficit of $40,403.07, appearing in the account known as "University, College, and Library." The Corporation had increased the salaries in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences by $43,784.99 in the year under review and this increase was more than met by the remarkable gain of $48,926.47 in receipts from students; but the assignment to restricted uses of funds, the income of which was available in the preceding year, contributed to a loss of income amounting to $18,242.99. Furthermore, the cost of maintaining the New Lecture Hall, the Germanic...
...after this work is done, it remains to see that all men who have registered, should actually vote, and to watch the count of the vote after it has been cast in order to make sure that it is honest. Mr. Cosby then described the career of several well-known New York politicians and showed that such men can be defeated only by the increasing efforts of upright men. The help of all honest men is needed in politics when public life has become so degraded that it is necessary to argue with men on questions of the merest honesty...
...Overseers to solicit donations for the building fund has turned over to the treasurer of Harvard College approximately $154,000. This is about $4,000 more than it was originally planned to raise, and no effort has been recently made to increase the amount as it is not definitely known whether additional funds will be needed...
President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale, Hon. J. J. Myers '69, speaker in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and Mr. James Barnes, Princeton '91, will speak at informal meetings in the Living Room of the Union sometime during this month. Mr. Barnes, who is well known as a correspondent to various periodicals, and as a writer of books on the navy, gave a talk in the Union two years ago on "Side Lights on the Boer...