Word: scotland
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England, with a population of 25,000,000, only sends 5000 students to her two universities, while Scotland, with a population of 4,000,000, has 6500 university students, and Germany, with 43,000,000 of people, has 22.500 students. In the two latter cases, however, the proportion of foreign students is quite large...
...CATHEDRAL TOWNS OF ENGLAND, IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. By Thomas W. Silloway and Lee L. Powers. Boston: A. Williams & Co." This book is a pleasant account of a journey through England, Ireland and Scotland, which has grown out of a series of articles published in one of the Boston papers. The introductory notice sufficiently explains the plan of the book: "Instead of simply recording personal observations, the labor was extended by the incorporation of historic and biographical facts, the authors hoping that, while their work would be valuable and interesting as a compend to those familiar with the facts, it would...
John C. Ralston of Milwaukee, foreman of a soap factory, has received notice that he has fallen heir to a fortune of $3,000,000, left by his great-grandfather in Scotland...
...current number of the Popular Science Monthly contains the rectorial address of Dr. Alexander Bain to the students of Aberdeen University, Scotland, taking for his subject "The University Ideal." Prof. Bain gives a description of the origin of the university system, of its gradual growth and progress up to the present day, and an exhaustive discussion of what in his opinion constitutes an ideal university. The university proper can hardly be dated back earlier than the twelfth century; and the important particulars in its first constitution were these: First, the separation of philosophy from theology. Aristotle and the awakening intellect...
...even surpassing in length the distance travelled by Gregory's team in 1878. They left Melbourne March 17, and are due in Sydney Nov. 16. During the eight months the Australians will have travelled 35,300 miles. The team undertook no fewer than ninety-eight journeys in England and Scotland, making an aggregate of 5,786 miles, and playing in twenty-nine different cities and towns...