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...printed in 1790 at the Convent of our Lady of Loretto; and an album containing the portraits of students who attended the Round Hill School at Northampton, Massachusetts. The Album is interesting as almost all the portraits are of men who later became famous either as scholars or statesmen...
...Encyclopaedia of American Biography shows the following result: College Graduates. From Academies. Non College Percentage of College Men. Scientists, 341 25 164 64.30 Educators, 625 42 345 61.76 Clergymen, 1505 59 1080 56.92 Lawyers, 841 68 769 50.12 Physicians, 427 36 449 46.82 Authors, 415 39 668 36.99 Statesmen, 464 65 811 34.63 Journalists, 96 11 206 30.67 Public men, 145 15 605 18.95 Philanthropists, 29 6 145 16.11 Business Men, 171 60 884 15.34 Soldiers, 252 436 1264 12.91 Inventors, 19 3 144 11.45 Actors, 4 4 99 3.75 Explores, 9 7 233 361 Navy...
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have just published a life of Charles Summer by Moorfield Storey '66, as the concluding volume of the series of American Statesmen...
...different in Gore Hall from that of other libraries which divide the whole collection into fields--as history, philosophy, etc. The authors are grouped by centuries and then alphabetically. Elsewhere they are scattered. The treatment of biography is also much better in the Harvard Library than elsewhere, as the statesmen relating to the history of a certain country are placed with that history, instead of being grouped by themselves...
...interfere in the internal affairs of another nation over which the right exists. In this controversy, the negotiations hinged on suzerainty and not on international law. England refused to accept specific reforms and the question came down to one of franchise. The Transvaal asked England to stand by her statesmen and courts, whose opinions were that suzerainty did not exist. England's magnanimity had been tried and found warning. She never claimed that the conventions have been broken nor would she accept the remedies of grievances because she claimed the right of suzerainty. Finally, discord has been made by England...