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...Harvard Club of Boston, organized last spring, has immediately taken the place which has been waiting for it so long, and we are more and more surprised that it came into existence so recently. Three weeks ago it gave a very successful dinner to last year's winning crew and baseball nine, and tonight it is entertaining the members of the football squad. Occasions such as these, where graduates and undergraduates meet on a common footing as Harvard men, furnish some of the most delightful memories of a college career, and we hope for the sake of the various teams...
President Lincoln of the Economic Club in his introductory address stated the conditions which have rendered municipal reform so pressing a need. The government of cities has deteriorated and problems now present themselves which had no importance a generation ago. Every community which has suffered from the dishonest administration of its affairs has a keen interest in municipal reform...
When Burr was elected captain of the Football team a year ago the outlook before him was far from bright. Not only was there a demand for reorganization of the coaching, but an entirely new team had to be built up. Nevertheless he set about his task with determination and intelligence. He intended to have the best possible coaching for his team, and he got it; he intended to make no mistakes, and none were made. The results were emphatic...
...time secretary, and later president, of the American Philological Association, his work bringing him into wide acquaintance with the other great philologists of America. For ten years he was editor of the American Journal of Archaeology; he has likewise edited the Classical Quarterly and the Classical Review. Two years ago he gave a series of lectures at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens...
Signor Ferrero is a graduate of the University of Bologna. He is famous especially for his history, "The Greatness and Decline of Rome," the fourth volume of which has just been published and translated into English and French. Two years ago he delivered a series of lectures at the "College de France" in Paris, which were remarkable for his vivid treatment of past events. His history deals with the subject form a modern point of view and in modern terms...