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...taken as nothing else but a quiet reply to the Phi Beta Kappa speech. The pamphlet in question is called "The Question of a Division of the Philosophical Faculty," and is made up of the inaugural address of Prof. Hofmann on the occasion of his assuming the rectorship of the University of Berlin, and of the two opinions of the Philosophical Faculty of that university on the question of admitting to the university graduates of Realschulen on the same footing as graduates of a Gymnasium. It is very fortunate that in this discussion we have the positive testimony...
...recent London letter to a New York daily says in relation to Prof. Lowell's election to the rectorship of St. Andrews : "We have no equivalent for this office at either Oxford or Cambridge, the undergraduates there having no voice in the election of any of their principals. Mr. Lowell ought to be pleased with St. Andrew's when he goes down to give his address. It is a picturesque old-world place, with the gray ivy-clad ruins of the ancient cathedral and castle standing in the midst of the clean, prim town, the old library, with its many...
...ship of St. Andrew's University. Since 1858 the Scottish universities, however differently organized before that time, have had a uniform constitution, created by the "university act." This act was referred to by Earl Selborne, who, having been asked the other day whether Mr. Lowell was eligible to the rectorship, replied that "nothing in the Scottish University act of 1858 precluded his election." Under the statue each university has three governing bodies-a senates academicus, a university court and a general council. The first regulates the property, discipline and instruction of the university; the second reviews the decisions...
...London Daily News said of Mr. Lowell's candidacy for the Lord Rectorship of the University of St. Andrew's : "Every one will be pleased if the St. Andrew's men elect Mr. Lowell. The choice will be all literary, and not in the least political. The election of Mr. Lowell will be a graceful compliment to a distinguished scholar, humorist and University man, from a country which is always receiving English visitors with the warmest welcome. Mr. Lowell's charming gifts as a speaker cannot but be welcome in the holder of an office, where to make a speech...
Minister James Russel Lowell has formally accepted the rectorship of St. Andrews University. His rectorial address, which must be on some literary or political topic, will be looked forward to with great interest...