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...first ladies' day of the winter meetings of the Athletic Association resulted in an even greater success than that which favored the introductory meeting. In spite of the threatening weather the occasion drew forth an attendance whose brilliancy and enthusiasm rivalled that of any that has yet graced the association. The arrangements for the meeting were substantially the same as those of last Saturday. Some minor changes and improvements were however introduced into the arrangements for seating the immense audience of the day. Mr. Evert J. Wendell presided over the meeting, assisted by the other officers of the association...
...school shall be in charge of a director, whose duty it shall be to superintend the work of the school and its members and to make an annual report thereon to the committee. There will be no prescribed course of study for members, excepting the presentation of four theses annually upon work done during the year. The course shall extend to three years. For the present, members are to be chosen and sent by the various cooperating colleges as they see fit. It is expected that there will be eight or ten pupils at the school next year, and among...
...generally known that it possesses the most beautiful and costly of college buildings. The chief college building is the most magnificent and durable structure in the United States. It is built after the model of a Grecian temple. It resembles the Parthenon, with a peristyle of thirty-six columns, whose cost was about $13,000 each. The cella or body of the building is 111 feet wide and 169 feet long. This one structure cost two millions of dollars. The entire sum given by the donor for a college was absorbed in the building, but the real estate which Girard...
...told in Michigan University: In the year 1854, Prof. Francis Brunnow came from Leipsic to Ann Arbor, to fill the chair of astronomy and to act as director of the observatory. He was a thorough scholar, the author of a valuable work on Spherical Astronomy, and a man whose services were highly esteemed in the scientific world; yet, for a time, he lectured to one student only. Later in life, Prof. Brunnow was accustomed to call these lectures the most important he ever delivered, since his solitary listener was James C. Watson, afterwards America's distinguished astronomer. - [Unity...
...oration on Garfield, is without doubt sometimes deserved: "Beyond all," Mr. Hoar says, "Dr. Hopkins taught his pupils that lesson in which some of our colleges so sadly fail - reverence for the Republican life of which they were to form a part, and for the great history of whose glory they were inheritors...