The sun., 1896-10-17
The Assembly of Scholars and Scion.
lists at Princeton.

1t is doubtful whether so large body of
men distinguished in scholarship and sci
ence has ever been brought together in the
United States rs that which will take part
next week in the celebration of Princeton's
hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Many of
the most eminent universities of the United
are to be represented by delegates, some of
whom have this week been delivering lee
lures upon important subjects which they
are especially qualified to treat.
Those who are conversant with the work
accomplished in the various fields of con-
temporary thought and research will recog-
nize the significance attaching to this re-
union of guests Of mark, who have come
from afar to join in honoring the institution
inseparably linked with the name of JoNA-
THAN EDWARDS, the greatest of American
thinkers in colonial times. The oldest of
EnGland's seats OF learning will be repre-
sentcd on the side of scholarship and letters
by GOODWIN SMITH, DC. H., formerly Regius
professor of modern history at Oxford;
and on the side of scientific inquiry, TO
which of late years Oxford has devoted
great deal of energy, By EDWARD BAYNALL
BouLToN, the Hope professor of ZOOLOGY.
The sister University Of Cambridge, the
alma mater of Sir ISAAC NEWTON, sends
JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON. Cavendish profes-
sor of natural philosophy and member Of
the Royal Society. From Trinity College,
Dublin, doubly famous from its association
with EDMUND BURKE and with Sir w. X.
HAMILTON, the inventor OF quaternions,
comes EDWARD DowDEN, professor Of Eng
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to many Americans by his ANALYSIS of
SHAKEsPEARE' diction, and his detection of
the passages contributed by FLETCHER and
Others to the plays that bear SHAKE
sPEARE's name. The University of Edin-
burgh, made illustrious in the eyes of all
students of philosophy by the names of
HUME, STEWART, REID, and Sir WILLIAM
HAMILTON, has sent delegate to Princeton
in the person of ANDREW SETH, the we'll
known professor Of logic and metaphysics.
The educational institutions of France are
represented by NJ. HENRI MoIssAN, who ap-
pears in the twofold capacity of member of
the Academy of Sciences and professor OF
chemistry in the University of Paris. From
BIsMARcK's university. G8ttingen. comes
FELIX KLEIN, professor of mathematics;
the University of Leipsic sends FRIEDRICH
KARL BRuGMANN, professor of Indo-
Germanic phlology; and JOHANN Con-
RAD. professor of political economy, is
the delegate of the University OF
Halle. The Dutch University OF Utrecht
has commissioned A. A. w. HuBRECHr, pro-
fessor of ZOOLOGY; and the German Ar
chRological Institute at Athens is repre-
sented by its First Secretary, WILHELM
yAn H.,
information regarding the remarkable re-
suits OF the German excavations at Olympia.
Finally, from the Dominion of Canada come
WILLIAM PETERSON and Sir j. WILLIAM
DAWSON, principal and principal emeritus
of McGill University, Montreal, and the
Rev. DIR. WILLIAM CAvEN, principal of
Knox College, Toronto and professor of
eXegesis and biblical criticism in that in
stitution.
No fewer than seventeen lectures have
been delivered during the present week at
Princeton by members Of this distinguished
body of visitors. Thus, in four lectures,
Prof. j. j. THOMSON has discussed the dis
charge of electricity in gases, and Prof
FELIX KLEIN, also in four lectures, has eE-
pounded the. mathematical theory of the
top. Prof. ANDREW SETH has delivered
two lectures on Theism, subject sngu-
larly suited to the occupant of the chair of
logic and metaphysics in the University of
Edinburgh. An important lecture has also
been given by Prof KARL BRUGMANN on The |
nature and origin of the genders OF nouns
in the Indo-Germanic languages, ex xplaining |
doubtless, among other things, why often
the same noun has different genders in diff |
ferent oiTshoots of the Indo- Germanic trunk. |
We add that on Monday OF next week |