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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these fellowships was founded in 1871 by George Bancroft, the historian. About 65 years ago Edward Everett suggested to President Kirkland that it would be well to send a young Harvard graduate to Germany to study. President Kirkland approved, and chose Bancroft, then eighteen years of age. He went to the university of Gottingen, the first American student who ever studied in Germany by the assistance of this college. It is interesting to notice that the great historian, the first holder of anything like a fellowship in America, was the founder of the most valuable fellowship in American colleges...
...exciting a good deal of comment in congressional circles. It is probable that an investigation will be had of that subject and some guilty participants in that fun punished by removal from the service. The provocation of all this talk was the death of Cadet Strang. Young Strang went to the academy from Oregon. He was duly initiated by the boys, and was within 12 hours laid up in the hospital. Shortly afterwards he died. The cadets said he hurt himself by falling out of a hammock. To the contrary there is evidence that he was fatally injured by hazing...
...related that the last time Mr. Gladstone went to Nice to recuperate, a friend found him in the garden one day writing page after page of what seemed to be an important public dispatch. He apologized for the interruption. "Not at all," said the prime minister; "I am only writing in reply to an Eton boy who wrote to me on a point in Homer." He confessed that he did not know his questioner; but it was a pleasure for an old Etonian to spend his holiday in satisfying the desire for knowledge...
...upon the idea that a little sensation of the kind would be interesting here. Accordingly, last week, a large cannon cracker was fired off at midnight in front of Matthews. As this did not produce the desired effect, another one was tied to a door knob in Thayer and went off, scorching the door, and covering the floor with burning wadding. The same day, a gentleman, while pouring coal on his fire was surprised and alarmed by an explosion which scattered his fire to some distance; and on making investigations, he found that gun powder had been placed...
...same time the superintendent should not have sold things too cheap. If five percent. Profit was needed, five per cent. profit ought to have been made. And it is but a poor consolation that the money which should have gone to the supporting of the society went into the pockets of members buying goods...