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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...science, and magic. (4) Useful arts includes all forms of industrial science, manufactures and bandicrafts, the combative arts, agriculture, lanscape-gardening, building (but not architecture), navigation, and aeronautics. (5) Fine arts embraces music, the archaeology of art and numismatics. (6) Antiquities (including folk-lore) takes other departments of archaeology; popular ballads and tales, as well as mediaeval romances, find their places here, while ballads not of popular origin appear under the final head; here, too, are placed anthropology and ethnology. The scope of (7) History and geography (including politics and general biography) is sufficiently indicated by its title...
...experiment will be successful. The present number of courts is entirely inadequate, and the situation of the few we do have is far from the best. The proposed plan of the association will greatly improve both the number, and the quality of the courts. Tennis is such a popular game that nearly everyone is interested in the success of the association, and few indeed can afford to refuse their subscriptions. With the supremacy of foot ball, tennis will probably gain many supporters in the fall, and unless something were done to remedy the existing evil, complaints next year would...
...same as those of Harvard College; and the courses of study are nearly the same. They include courses in Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, English, German, French, Italian, Philosophy, Political Economy, History, Fine Arts, Music, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Natural History. Of these, English, with 50 students, is the most popular: then come Latin, Greek, History and Mathematics, with 39, 29, 17, 17 students respectively. Political Economy, too, is quite popular. There is connected with the Annex, a library of about 1100 reference books; and the students are besides entitled to the use of books in the University library...
Part II of Prof. Francis Childs' edition of the "English and Scottish popular Ballads" has appeared, and the remaining parts will follow shortly...
...students in attendance to-day, 579, which includes several women. This rapid growth is largely due to the high aims of the founder and first president, Wm. B. Rogers, whose plan was to have the institution first-class in every particular. This becoming known. the institution at once became popular, and the size of the classes has continued to increase. The work of carrying it on has been accomplished mainly by tuition fees, $200 yearly for each man, and without any large endowment. This heavy tuition fee will, therefore, have to be continued until outside aid shall place the Institute...