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...beggars, drunkards, and discharged prison convicts, - though there are men of all classes to be found. Certainly there has been a great decrease of tramps in Germany since they were founded. There are various excellent characteristics to these institutions. In the the first place they are small, - Wilhelmsdorf, the largest, having room for but two hundred colonists. The system must be limited and personal to be effective. Then they are friendly and unofficial and endeavor to be domestic. Again, most of the tramps stay but a short time and leave for some fixed occupation, though sometimes they come back preferring...
...survivors of the class of 1842, the largest ever graduated from Dartmouth College, are preparing to celebrate their semi-centennial at Hanover during next commencement week. On graduating, the class numbered eighty-six, and forty-nine have died...
Columbia College has an endowment of $9,000,005, which is the largest of any American College. Harvard comes second with $7,000,000, Cornell...
...station established. It is over 8000 feet above the sea level and is especially fortunate in the remarkable steadiness of the air and the clearness of the sky. The Bashe telescope was mounted and during the year, 1224 photographs have been taken. The thirteen-inch equatorial - which is the largest refracting telescope in the southern hemisphere - was also mounted and, although as yet no photographs have been taken with it, the expectation is that great results in that line, will eventually be attained. A stone residence has been built for the observers, at considerable expense. The expedition has been received...
...thus become members of the Phi Beta Kappa. Of these eight are New England men, five of them from the Hartford High School. It is noticeable that none of the Phi Beta Kappa orations are held by men from Andover, Exeter, or St. Paul's, which are Yale's largest preparatory schools...