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Clark University, in addition to those already started has recently opened to its students two new departments. The first is in modern languages, and is to be under the direction of Dr. Camille Reid, who organized and has for some years conducted the Modern Language Institute in Boston. This department although never announced has always been in the scheme of the university. It will not take up at all the philology or literature of the languages, but will be devoted entirely to equipping men with what is needful for scientific work. Dr. Camille Reid, the head of the department...
...October number. The Month is a curious compilation of facts chiefly left over from the last issue. It also includes a summary of the foot ball games, the finances of the athletic clubs, and some advance sheets of the catalogue. It these items and a description of the new janitor system saw "the broader livers of development in the university," the Month is fulfilling its announced purpose...
Harvard men will receive careful attention at the wardrooms of the new firm of The Alexander Co., 26 West street, Boston, and will find there all the latest novelties in gold and silver, and a selected stock of diamonds, watches, ivory and leather goods, and umbrellas, Special attention given prize cups and medals...
Among the many gifts that Yale has had, none have ever been received with more pleasure by the students than the new Gymnasium. For a long time the present gymnasium has been a disgrace to Yale, it being in ever way unfitted for the purpose. The work of tearing down the buildings on the lot where the new gymnasium is to be erected is well under way and it at last looks as if the long wished for building was soon to be a reality...
...meeting of the corporation a gift of $50,000 was received for the purpose of founding a chair in Bibilical Literature in the Academic Department in memory of the late ex-President Woolsey, the professorship in it to be named after him. Through the generosity of Mr. Sloane of New York, who has already done much for Yale, a new Scholarship has been presented to the University for the promotion of studies in physics...