Word: americas
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During the past year at the Law School Library the collection of engravings of noted English jurists has been increased by sixty pictures, and it is now probably the best collection of this kind in America. The engravings are scattered through Austin Hall, and form one of the most interesting features of the Law School. Another notable addition to the Library is the set of volumes containing the Cape of Good Hope Reports. These reports are of especial interest now because many of the cases reported involve places made famous by the war in South Africa. The set comprises about...
...will certainly interest the lovers of music in the University and all who may be interested in the development of music in America to learn something more of Professor Paine's opera "Azara," from which the ballet music has recently been performed in Boston and Cambridge with such brilliant success. It may not be generally recognized that during the last few years a work has been created here in our midst which makes a permanent contribution to the modern opera. In fact "Azara" is the first grand opera on an original subject ever composed throughout by a native-born American...
...staff is giving considerable attention to completing the Synoptical Flora of North America, begun by Dr. Gray, and now being edited by Professor Benjamin L. Robinson. The usual amount of research work is in progress. Among those engaged in it are Professor Piper, of the Washington Agricultural College, and Professor Henderson of the Iowa Agricultural College, who are here on leave of absence, to study the type specimens of western plants in the Herbarium collection...
...recently become affiliated with the Archaeological Institute of America upon conditions similar to those regulating the relations to the institute of the school at Athens and that at Rome...
...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, Saturday afternoon. Harvard was represented by A. G. Mason '00 and A. N. Rice '00. Trinity College announced its withdrawal from the association, and Brown and the University of California were re-instated. These universities had been dropped for failing to comply with the requirement that every member of the association send a team at least once in two years to the intercollegiate games...