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...following Harvard Clubs will send delegates to the dinner: Bangor, Dr. W. C. Mason '74; Berkshire, W. N. Seaver '00; Chicago, name not given; Cleveland, J. Foster, Jr., '02; Connecticut Valley, C. H. Beckwith '94; Eastern Illinois, E. J. James of Urbana; Fall River, name not given; Fitchburg, E. P. Pierce L.'77; Keene, N. H., J. S. Seward '68; Lawrence, C. G. Saunders '67; Lowell, G. H. Spaulding '96; Manchester, N. H., T. M. Chalmers '91; Minnesota, H. Elliott '81; New Jersey, name not given; New York City, A. G. Fox '69, President of Harvard Alumni Association; Rhode Island...
Professor Boyesen was born in Norway in 1848. In 1869 he came to America where he began life in Chicago as an editor of a Norwegian-Danish newspaper. Later he accepted a professorship of Latin and Greek in Urbana University, Ohio. In 1874 he was made assistant professor of German at Cornell University, and in 1875 was made a full professor. He remained there until 1880, when he went to New York with a view of devoting himself entirely to literature. In 1881 he accepted an instructorship in German in Columbia College, and was appointed professor in German...
...Student (Urbana, III.) has copied - we say copied because it does not bear the usual "Written for The Student" upon its heading, but some other name - an article comparing Dickens and Tyndall, for no other reason than that they are both Englishmen, - a sufficient ground, no doubt, in The Student's eyes. We are sorry to see the matter so indisputably settled. How have our idols fallen! Before reading The Student, we had always regarded Dickens as quite a good author, - brilliant, interesting, and instructive. But no, it can't be so; for "Dickens's life was spent chiefly...