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This effusiveness, however, might not have been fully justified by the curriculum offered. The most popular course was Physical Training. In an era of prim Victorianism and sublimated libidinal longings, the sight of such exercise aroused a certain amount of comment. The Boston Herald, in its August 9th issue of 1903, raised its staid eyebrows at some of the activities going on in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...Manhattan's Eighth Avenue for the company's head offices; there business mixed with pleasure in the form of such Fiskal attractions as "THE DEMON CAN-CAN . . . 100 BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADIES . . . Contains Nothing Objectionable." Finally Fisk was probably the only colonel (of New York's 9th National Guard Regiment) and admiral (of his own steamboats) to wear diamond-studded uniforms and command the rare title of "Mr. Director-Admiral-Colonel...
...European Common Market. The boundaries of this new entity are roughly those of Charlemagne's Europe (Charlemagne ruled more of Germany, but only half of Italy). But this new super customs union, among states which remain politically sovereign, has a power potential undreamed of by the 9th century Franks. The 166 million people of the Common Market nations produce more steel than Soviet Russia, do more of the world's trade (one-fifth) than the U.S. No warrior hosts throng around the eight-story Brussels headquarters of the Common Market. Calm-voiced Walter Hallstein, 57, the onetime German...
Julian Bream will give a concert of lute music by John Dowland, Elizabethan composer, on Oct. 9th at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The concert, sponsored by the Department of Music, is free, with no tickets required...
...picking and choosing, Father Daly had a feast no plain collector could ever dream of equaling. Spread out before him were sacred and profane works never, or rarely, exhibited. Items: a 9th century copy of Terence's comedies, with illustrations showing actors in the authentic costumes of ancient Rome; Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II's 13th century manual on falconry; an illustrated sth century copy of Vergil. He also saw many Bibles -but none that surpasses in beauty the work commissioned by Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (1444-82), and one of the keenest bibliophiles...