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Beautifully situated on the southern slope of the Hartz Mts., where the river Bahue flows down into the valley below, is the German school of Ilfeld. It was originally built in A. D. 1174 as a monastery, but about the time of the reformation it was changed to a school. The buildings, some of which were part of the old monastery and are still occupied, are all of sandstone. The school, which is very richly endowed, is intended for young nobles, although a few commoners who have shown marked talent and ability have been admitted. Everything is conducted...
...burning of the Southern Illinois Normal University entailed a loss...
...students in the university came from New England; 30 years ago 75 per cent; three years ago 72 per cent; but now only 67 per cent. During the past three years the percentage of students from Massachusetts has fallen from 61 1-2 to 54. Sixty years ago the Southern States contributed nearly one-fifth of the whole number of students, but that section of the country, though greatly expanded in the meantime, now contributes only a little over three per cent. The increase from the Middle States is the most striking, and is chiefly among the students...
Before the war-a phrase which dates most important events in Southern history-this was pre-eminently the college of the South, writes a correspondent of the New York Tribune from the University of Virginia. It had few rivals, and its broad methods of study and liberal discipline drew the young man of family, the chivalric blood which is the precious Southern tradition, to its halls. Most educated men older than forty in the South have spent a season here, and even now, with the multiplication of State universities and privately endowed colleges in the South Atlantic and Gulf States...
...students of Davidson "College," Charlotte, N. C., have if correctly reported, recently been indulging in some very curious freaks. We doubt if even Southern "chivalry" can explain these actions. The report reads: Students at Davidson College have of late been so riotous as to attract general attention. They take possession of Davidson College station as the trains stop, go through the cars singing ribald songs regardless of the presence of ladies, and parade the country round about so that women are afraid to be found abroad. This hostility seems to be especially directed against preachers, whom they compel...