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...highest part of the field, about 400 feet above the Aegean, the British School next to the Normal School, the American towards the east next to the groves of the Asomaton. To the north rises the steep rock of Lycabettus, cutting off the winter winds; on the east, south and west stretches the unrivalled panoramafrom Pentelicus and Hymettus to Salamis. 'The view,' wrote the American Minister, 'is one of une of unequalled loveliness, even in this land of beauty.' Happily, the open ground on all sides promises to leave it to us forever. Moreover, the site is not only high...
...company which Mr. Clarke represents is now building a bridge at Hawesbury, New South Wales, which is similar in construction to the one at Poughkeepsie. One of the greatest advances which has been made in the work is the substitution of iron and mild steel for brick. The spans of the Poughkeepsie bridge are built by means of a massive staging supported on large piles. This staging contains over one million feet of lumber and is within thirty feet as high as Trinity Church steeple, New York. Mr. Clarke then illustrated his remarks by a series of stereopticon views, which...
...United States is found in a presentation copy of a recently published book on "Arithmetical Tables" which has been received at Cornell University from the firm of Ralfe Brothers, London. It says: "The dollar of the United States of America has four values in different places: In Georgia and South Carolina, 4s. 6d.; in New England and Virginia, 6s. 0d.; in Delaware, Md., New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 7s. 6d.; in New York and North Carolina...
...call of Francis Lieber to Columbia College in 1857, marks the first recognition by a northern college of history and politics as properly co-ordinate sciences. At the College of South Carolina, Lieber had taught history, political economy and philosophy, as a homogeneous group. The presence of the latter subject in his professorship betrays a survival of the old scholastic connection between metaphysics and politics, a connection which lasted long at Harvard, Columbia and many other colleges. There is a valuable and suggestive idea in Lieber's first combination of history and politics which ought to influence all American colleges...
Question: "Should the United States Government interfere to secure the rights of colored voters in the South...