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...Prof. T. W. Hunt of Princeton is shortly to publish a new work, entitled "Representative English and Prose Writers...
...Prof. Turner, the celebrated anatomist of Edinburgh, receives a salary of $20,000. This is said to be the largest salary received by any professor in the world...
President Gates, of Rutgers has refused permission to the students to give a minstrel entertainment for the benefit of the Athletic Association. Prof. Gates thinks it beneath the dignity of students to blacken their faces and appear on the stage...
...Prof. Richards is earnestly working for the new Yale gymnasium. He has petitioned the building committee of the corporation for the lot at the corner of High and Elm streets, where the base-ball cage now stands, on which to put the building, which will be the largest and best equipped gymnasium in the country...
...Prof. Shaler, in his paper in the March "Scribner," says at the time of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 "John Winthrop, then professor of physics and astronomy in Harvard College, in 1755 one of the few eminent American men of science of the eighteenth century, states that the bricks from the chimney of his house, in Cambridge, the top of which was thirty-two feet from the ground, were thrown to a point thirty feet from the base of the structure...