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...University of Pennsylvania has received a gift of about 8250,000 from Gen. Isaac J. Wistar to build and endow a museum of anatomy and biology. This museum will be in memory of Dr. Caspar Wistar, whose oldest living descendant will always be a member of the Board of Trustees...
...senate of the University of St. Andrews, the oldest in Scotland, has decided to open to women the university's departments of theology, arts and sciences...
...Francis Oliver Dorr, who has just died in Lansinburg, N. Y., was the last surviving member of the class of '25 of Harvard, as well as being the oldest living graduate of the Boston Latin School. He was born in Boston, in 1805, his father being a well-known merchant of this city. Among his class-mates at college were Frederic H. Hedge, Charles Francis Adams, Seth Ames, Samuel K. Lathrop, John L. Sibley, Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis, Horatio Alger, and Sears Cook Walker...
Prof. W. M. Nevin, professor of Ancient Languages in Franklin and Marshall, and the oldest college instructor in active service in the U. S., died on Thursday, aged...
There are over fifty law schools in the United States, most of them connected with colleges or universities. The number of students in them is increasing every year, Harvard, the largest school, having this year an attendance of 363. The oldest American course in law is at the University of Pennsylvania, which was founded in 1789. The famous Judge George Sharswood's "Commentaries on Blackstone" was published while he was a professor in this latter school...