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...leading universities of the world were generally responded to by representative literary and scientific men. In view of the event, the Principal of the university, Sir Alexander Grant, prepared a history of the foundation in two octavo volumes. From this work the following details as to the origin of the university are taken...
Bowdoin prizes have been awarded as follows: H. H. Brogan, '85, $50, for an essay on the "Conservation and Dissipation of Energy;" C. A. Whittemore, '85, $50 for an essay on the "Origin of Meteorites;" H. M. Clarke, '79, $100 for a Latin translation from Macaulay; C. B. Gleason, '85, $75 for an essay on Aristophanes as an Exponent of the Manners and Customs of his Times; C. M. Walsh, '84, $75 for a Greek translation from Jowett's Introduction to Plato's Theacteus...
...this new science we are enabled to ascertain the origin of a rock, the changes its component parts have undergone, and in short its complete history. It gives us information regarding decay in building stone, and points out the injurious matter therein. The minerals in a rock are shown, no matter how minute they may be. The history of meteorites, up to this time unknown, is revealed by this science...
...novels written by recent graduates of Harvard and seems to have struck the Harvard student as the best exposition of Harvard life we have. The novel of course does not deal alone with Harvard, but the society it depicts, and the men it describes are all distinctly of Harvard origin and give it peculiar interest to the "young men from Cambridge" as the New York Times calls Harvard students The reason for the popularity of "Guerndale" is evident to one who compares it with the ordinary run of books founded on American college life. The best of these before...
...borders. We may believe Pesident Porter when he claims that the sanitary arrangements of the college buildings are of the best. Yet it is not generally denied by Yale men that New Haven is not a very healthy city. Although some cases of sickness may have had their origin elsewhere, as has been claimed, there are undoubtedly several which cannot be attributed to anything but the unhealthy surroundings of the students at New Haven. Besides those reported in the newspapers, several have come to our knowledge, which prove this fact...