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...illustrated from photographs and sketches, one of which is signed by the author. A story entitled "The Drummer of Company E" follows soon after and the next thing of importance one comes across is an article on "A Cosmopolitan Language," illustrated with portraits of Max Muller. Sir John Lubbock, John Bright, Earl Roseberry, Charles Bradlaugh and others...
...inaugural dinner of the Bristol University College Club, a few weeks ago, Sir John Lubbock made a most interesting speech on the subject of a higher education. He claimed that the sciences and modern languages did not receive their full share of attention as statistics showed. In the course of his remarks he expressed the following views on the warfare now going on between the classics and the sciences: Five-and-twenty years ago, when the hours of study were fewer and the examinations less numerous, a boy had far greater opportunity of following up any special task than...
...claims of American scholarship is about to be made by the English university of Cambridge, in the person of Prof. W. W. Goodwin. Your eminent Greek scholar is to receive the honorary degree of LL. D. at Cambridge on the 12th of June, in company with Sir John Lubbock, Matthew Arnold, M. Pasteur, the great French chemist; George F. Watts, the painter; General Menabrea, the Italian minister in London; Sir Alexander Grant, the principal of Edinburgh University, and other distinguished men. Professor Goodwin's honor is not only well deserved, but it is peculiarly appropriate as coming from Cambridge, where...