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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often does it fall to the lot of a college professor to be held by his pupils in such universal esteem and affection as was the late Dr. Martin, of the University of the City of New York. During all his career in that institution he probably never had an enemy, nor ever was for an hour the object of ill will. And yet the boys had lots of innocent fun at the expense of "Betty," as they called him. The appearance of his smiling, boyish face and gray curls, and his slight figure draped in the inevitable cloak...
Within a few days we have heard of the death of Chunder Sen, a distinguished Hindoo reformer. During the past twenty years India, with its two hundred millions of inhabitants, has made great strides in civilization and Christianity. The late death of Chunder Sen has brought to light many interesting facts concerning the spread of Christianity among the Hindoos. This wonderful man has done much towards raising his countrymen from idolatry and paganis mto Christianity, and he has now many followers who are spreading his ideas throughout the entire country. Chunder Sen originated these ideas, as it were, spontaneously...
Trinity College has received all told from the late Colonel Northam and his estate nearly...
...work, as from time to time reported in this country, has always been very lively. As an American scholar his achievements in classical archaeology have stimulated a pride in his work that is not confined to his alma mater, but is felt equally here at Harvard, where of late years the study of his subject has received such an impetus from the efforts of Professors Norton and White...
...correspondent of the New Orleans Times Democrat writes as follows of the gift of Paul Tulane to establish a university in the South, about which of late so much has been said: Stopping at Princeton for a day, by request of the venerable Paul Tulane, I had the pleasure of a long conversation with him about the university he desires to establish in New Orleans...