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...Leyden University, in Holland, is the richest in the world. Its real estate alone is said to be worth...
...Leyden University, in Holland, is the richest in the world. Its real estate alone is said to be worth four million dollars...
...first class ever graduated, that of 1642. Out of the nine graduates, six were distinguished as follows : "One was sent both by Cromwell and Charles II., as minister to the states General of Holland. One became a follow of a college at Oxford ; two received degrees in medicine at Leyden and Padua ; one received a degree of divinity at Oxford, then as now, the greatest academically distinction to which an English theologian can attain...
...tell where he next will light. There is scarcely any institution of note in this country which has not suffered from the stings and arrows of the outrageous Monday Lectureship, and Harvard least of all has been exempt from its attacks. The latest sufferer, however, is the University of Leyden, the students of which have been accused of the grossest immorality by Mr. Cook. Strange to say this accusation is indignantly denied by the rector of the university. But little weight, however, can be attached to such a denial in the face of the contrary assertion by the Lectureship. Besides...
Prof. Kuenen of Leyden, the celebrated Biblical critic, is to deliver the "Hibbert Lectures" in London this year. They will be repeated at Oxford...