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There are nearly thirty-five hundred students at Leipsic University...
...twelve students who died at Leipsic during the last session of the university, one was killed in a duel and six committed suicide...
...Frank F. Marshall, a former pupil in the Leipsic Conservatory, will give a piano recital in Chickering's rooms, with the assistance of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Allen and Mr. Wulf Fries, Monday, Nov. 27th, at 7.45 P.M. The tickets for the recital are one dollar, and are for sale at Schmidt's and Pruefer's and at Chickering...
...Sarbonne (Paris), 125,000; Berlin University, 200,000; Bonn, 225,000; Breslaw University, 350,000; Erlanger University, 147,000; Frieburg University, 270,000; Giessen University, 160,000; Gottingen, 400,000; Halle University, 220,000; Heidelberg, 300,000; Jena, 180,000; Kiel, 180,000; Konigsberg, 184,000; Leipsic, 600,000; Munich University, 322,000; Tubingen, 235,000; Wurzburg, 300,000; Vienna, 271,000. Italy has seven university libraries each exceeding 100,000 volumes; and Russia has five. In America, Amherst has 42,000; Ann Arbor, 40,000; Johns Hopkins, 12,000; Bowdoin, 37,000; Harvard, 259,000, besides 216,000 pamphlets...
...life of a great university, if collected, would furnish material for a voluminous and inspiring volume. It is a work, we believe, which has not yet been undertaken by any one. The following story is told in Michigan University: In the year 1854, Prof. Francis Brunnow came from Leipsic to Ann Arbor, to fill the chair of astronomy and to act as director of the observatory. He was a thorough scholar, the author of a valuable work on Spherical Astronomy, and a man whose services were highly esteemed in the scientific world; yet, for a time, he lectured...