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Professor W. M. Davis of the Geological Department, and Dean of the Graduate School, will represent the University at the dedication of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg, where he will present a congratulatory address in behalf of the University. Delegates from all parts of the world will be present, as the Institute is the largest educational institution of its kind which has ever been established. The dedication exercises will take place next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The institution, which has been endowed by Mr. Andrew Carnegie with an endowment fund of $25,000,000, will consist of five departments...
...experience under other which impressed me most of anything in the number, for its interest, moderation, and case, is certainly lacking in all of those forced and unfinished attributes which are supposed to character the author's class. I should prophecy for him future success in the outer world. The essay on Morris Rosenfeld is marked by conviction, and by attention to things worth thinking of, and promises well...
...engaged in the building up of wealth was diminished. Today these conditions are reversed, the governmental employees receiving only fair salaries. Investments have become international and production has been stimulated, giving rise to large fortunes and greater wealth. M. d'Avenel thinks the best condition which can affect the world in the future is a still closer alliance, in financial and political lines, between the large countries of the world, than exists at present...
...actual presence and is the more famed by his memory, the diocese of Longfellow is bounded only by the limits of the language in which he wrote. For the spirit which inspired his poetry was that of the sweetness and peace and good will for which the whole world longs. Walt Whitman, with a genius of a different order from that of our poet, said well concerning him: 'I should have to think if I were asked to name a man who has done more and in more valuable directions for America.' And, so, at the close of a century...
...obvious truth in regard to the poems of Longfellow, that while they would have been of value at any time and place, their worth towards the foundation of the literature of a new world was priceless. The first need for creating such a literature in America was, no doubt, a great original thinker such as was afforded us in Emerson. Yet Longfellow rendered a service only secondary, in enriching and refining that literature and giving it a cosmopolitan culture, providing for it an equally attentive audience in the humblest log-cabins on the prairies or in the more distant literary...