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...Poughkeepsie. One of the greatest advances which has been made in the work is the substitution of iron and mild steel for brick. The spans of the Poughkeepsie bridge are built by means of a massive staging supported on large piles. This staging contains over one million feet of lumber and is within thirty feet as high as Trinity Church steeple, New York. Mr. Clarke then illustrated his remarks by a series of stereopticon views, which showed the manner in which the spans were constructed. At the conclusion of the lecture, Mr. Clarke was greeted with loud applause...
...collection of meteorites owned by the university is worth, at catalogue prices, a million and a half dollars. It may be compared very favorably with any other similar collection in the world...
...school needs about five million dollars to set it well upon its feet, and to make it the great university it is destined to be. But those millions are sure to come, as others have come, because these live men believe in that practical sense which vigorously abandons the methods of the darker ages and faces the future. The administration of President Eliot, when it is concluded, will stand as monument to commemorate this American genius for college building...
...standards, nobody has such a conceited estimate of them as not earnestly to strive to make them better. Knowledge is here thoroughly humble over its own ignorance; it knows enough to know its own limitations. The college life is so vigorous as to spend nearly a million dollars a year, and still feel wretchedly pinched in every department by poverty. And the mental life is so vigorous that scholars feel, all the time, mortally ashamed of doing so little. Life works by certain divine contagion. Facilities, opportunities, rules, standards, traditions-all are good; but life itself is better...
...Dead-head family that has been represented in every generation (with the exception of one) at Yale, is about to build, at a cost of half a million, a new tomb decorated with magnificent scroll-work.-Exchange...