The Rise of Uiiivcfsities. /6j 



THE RISE OE UNIVERSITIES. 



By S. S. Laurie, LL. D. Published by J. Fitzgerald, 24 E. 

 4th St., New York Price, post free, 30 cents. Every educator, 

 and all who take an interest in the history of education will find 

 this work to contain a vast amount of information of the highest 

 importance. That nearly all of the great universities of Europe 

 should have arisen in the deepest darkness of the middle ages is 

 in itself a phenomenon worthy of serious study. Truly the found- 

 ers of those institutions builded better than they knew, for the uni- 

 versities, indirectly, have been the principal agency for the over- 

 throw of all the principles of science and philosophy that were 

 most prized in mediaeval times. 



MIGRATION OE DAKOTA BIRDS. 



Thinking a few notes on the migration of birds of Dakota would 

 be of interest to your readers, I send the following taken from my 

 note book for 1885. 



May 14, Marsh Hawk. May 18, Mallard. May 18, Red Buff 

 Shouldered Black Bird. May 19, Snipe (species unknown). May 

 21, Gray Geese (flock of 26). May 26, Western Meadow Lark. 

 May 31, Killdeer. May 31, Blue Wing Teal. May 31, White 

 Brants. April 3, Crows- April 6, American Rough Legged 

 Hawk. April 6, Black Throated Sparrow. April 9, Yellow Head- 

 ed Black Bird. April 21, Purple Martin- April 22, Blue Bird. 

 April 23, Red Shafted Flicker. April 23, Western Robin. April 

 24, Red Shouldered Hawk April 24, Field Plover. April 26, 

 Sandhill Crane. April 26, Sparrow Hawk. April 27, Bronzed 

 Grakle. May i, Cowbird. May 11, Spotted Sandpiper May 

 12, Bobolink. May 12, Barn Swallow. May 12, Yellow Breasted 

 Chat. May 12, Buff Breasted Sandpiper. May 12, Curlew (species 

 unknown). May 12, American Coot. May 12. Grebe. May 14, 

 Western Kingbird. May 17, Bank Swallow. May 18, Western 

 Night Hawk. May 18. Marsh Wren, long and short bill. May 

 18, Sora Rail. May 19, Black Throated Vieror. 



Huron, Dakota. Chette E. Cheney. 



THE AD VANCE OE SCIENCE. 



As the world grows older, and as the generations pass away 

 and their places are taken by the rising generation, science pro- 

 gresses ; and the mysteries that puzzled the alchemists of the mid- 

 dle ages are now made clear by new light, shed by the investiga- 

 tions made in the general advance of science. 



As we stand and gaze on the ruined structures reared by the 

 ancient art of Babylon, Nineveh and Egypt, we feel an awe inspir- 

 ed by those once mighty structures. But when we pause to think 



