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48 Educational. h (Yosino Exkucisks. Wednesday, Juno 27, is the lust day of this tunn and of the school year. A vacation then intervenes until September ltt. Several literary en tertainnicnts will he given at the close of I he term. Sunday, Juno 21, the Chancel lor delivers his Uacealauroute address. Monday evening occurs the exhibition of the University Union. Tuesday eve tho annual address will he delivered. We have not yet learned tho name of the gentleman who is to deliver tho same. Wednesday, A. M., Commencement ex ercises; Wednesday evening, exhibition of the P.illadian society. There will he three graduates from the academic do partinonl, and one from the Agricultural College. It is not decided nt this writing, whether those exercises will be held in the Opera House or tho University chapel. Tho Commencement exercises, at least, will probably be hold in the Opera House. PERSONALIA. Ed P. Unangst is teaching at Palmy, ra, Nebraska. Miss Maud Mullen is teaching near Wuvurly, Neb. C. 33. Stratum took n trip homo, for n few days, recently. I'rofs. Nichols and Worloy, of the Normal School, visited tho University last month. Miss Emma Williams, formerly of the University, is teaching one of the schools of this city. W. 3'. Rhodes, who has for the past year been attending school in New York city, has returned. He will probably iU tend the University next fall. EDUCATIONAL. Aim to use words that are nost appro priate words that express your ireaning tho clearest with the fewest syllables. Do not imagine that a word is appropriate merely bocauso it is long, or so little used Hint your listeners aie not likely to know its meaning until they have consulted a dictionary. Small ideas are not made larger by being oxprossid with large words. An extravagant use of b!g words is admired only in serio-comic discourse. Never use the technical words of your profession unless all of your listeners have the same profcsMon as yours. Never use words, whether technical or not which you suspect your hearers will not under stand ; because people arc sure to declare that a conversation was "dull and uninter esting," when it was too deep for their comprehension. Tho Amoricamza: 3'rof. Sylvester, an acquisition to the John Hopkins University, from Cam. bridge, in an address delivered at that University on Washington's birth day, made the following pointed remarks: Why is it, ho enquired,', that the Mower of American youth do not resort for their mental impulse and higher education to Oxford and Cambridge, instead of to Her. lin, Leipzig, Jena, or Heidelberg?" "It is because there they aro welcomed, to whatever religious communion thoy are attached or unattached, without qucs lion and without distinction. It ib be cause there thoy can rost on tho bosom of a common mother, who shows kindness to ijJl and favor to none. ... 1 have boon struck, almost from tho first hour of my landing on thews shores, by the mani. festations I have every where witnessed of the close intellectual sympathy which ex. isls between America and Germany. It is German books that aro rond, it is Gormun authors who aro quoted, German opinion on all matters of scienco and loarning that is appealed to; and as regards com inunity of work and intellectual tios, 3 do not think it at all extravagant to assort that Germany and America belong to one hemisphere, and wo in England to anolh-or.'' 'p