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...arrived the fire had reached the roof. Eight rooms were burned out, the roof was burned, and all the other rooms in the building were soaked. The loss is about $5000 to the corporation and $1500 to the students. The losses are covered by insurance. Hope College is the oldest of the Brown buildings, and was recently remodelled at an expense...
...Furness before his death was the oldest living graduate of the University. He was born in Philadelphia on April 21, 1803, and entered the public Latin School in 1812. He graduated from the College in 1820 and from the Divinity School in 1823. In 1847 he received the degree of doctor of divinity from Harvard, and that of doctor of letters from Columbia at its centenial...
...meet the expressed wish that the portrait be painted by Sargent, so that it may be a high-grade work of art, fit for our building. We look upon Mr. Choate as perhaps the most representative of the champions of our club in New York, at least the oldest, and would like to have a better portrait of him than is possessed by the Union League, the Bar Association, or any other organization over which he has presided. We hope for such a portrait of Mr. Choate as the Players' Club has of Edwin Booth. To employ Sargent will probably...
Godey's, the oldest of the magazines, follows the good old custom of proffering Christmas confections in their proper season. The December number is notable, therefore, with Yule-tide fiction and verse, besides such seasonable articles as "Holiday Decorations," "Christmas, Past and Present," and "Christmas Day in a Japanese Go-down"-this latter richly illustrated by C. D. Weldon. Perhaps the chief feature of this number is, however, an extensive account of the great "Federation of Women's Clubs," a forerunner of the January issue, which is to be a special "woman's number." Beaumont and Fletcher's dramatic critique...
Professor White describes briefly the work which the school has carried on, including the unearthing of the theatre at Thoricus, "one of the most important and oldest of the Greek theatres which the excavations of fifteen years have brought to light"; he also offers some suggestions for the improvement of the organization and conduct of the school. He favors the existing plan of a director with five years' residence in Greece, and recommends two annual professors instead of one, as at present. His suggestion that the Archaeological Institute found two fellowships of $600 a year, to be filled by competitive...