Mon. Capel recently said : "I have traveled much, and I have inspected schools and educational institutions in many lands but nowhere have I seen any training equal, much less superior, to that given at West Point."
The trustees of Cornell College have passed a resolution in favor of ordering a statue of Ezra Cornell, the patron of their university. The work has been interested to the American sculptor, Story, who is at present in Italy.
Last evening the industrious inmates of Matthews were suddenly startled by the report of cannon fire-cracker placed at the foot of a tree near the dormitory by some laz student, probably, who has little consideration for the poor grinders" within.
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