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...Kappa was founded during the Revolutionary War, at the College of William and Mary, Virginia, for the purpose of recognizing scholarship and character. A few years later, the second chapter was established at Harvard. Among the men who have won election to this chapter are John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, Phillips Brooks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Charles Summer, Thomas Went worth Higginson, John Davis Long, Charles William Eliot, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, and Theodore Roosevelt...
...Union Boat Club of Boston opened its new clubhouse on Chestnut street, on the bank of the Charles River, by holding its annual dinner there on last Saturday evening. Among those present at the dinner were H. Bancroft '97, who acted as toastmaster, J. H. Parker '93, the architect of the building, Dr. B. Vincent '98, Professor I. N. Hollis h.'99, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who accompanied Peary on his last expedition, and J. E. Waid...
...Henry Bancroft Sprague '11, left end, prepared at Newton High School where he played halfback on the team for three years. Last year he played substitute left halfback in the Yale game. He is 22 years old, 5 feet 11 inches tall, and weighs 152 pounds...
...Italica," by W. R. Thayer '81; "Spanish Prose Composition," by G. W. Umphrey p.'01; "Dictionary of National Biography," edited by L. Stephen h.'90 and S. Lee; "School Reports and School Efficiency," by D. S. Snedden and W. H. Allen '78; "The Life and Letters of George Bancroft," by M. A. DeW. Howe '87; "Why Worry?" by G. L. Walton '75; "Priest and Pagan," by H. M. Hopkins p.'96; "The Pulse of Asia," by E. Huntington p.'02; "The Temple of Virtue," by P. R. Frothingham '86; "On the Training of Parents," by E. H. Abbott...
...Aeneas," played by the Pudding in 1882, draws from Mr. Owen Wister, the Musical Manager, an entertaining account of the occasion. Mr. Lindsay Swift '77 writes on the life of his classmate, Professor Edward Henry Strobel, late Adviser to the King of Siam. A sketch of the career of Bancroft Davis recalls the distinguished services of an older Harvard diplomat, especially in connection with the Geneva arbitration. Professor Lanman, and Professor Laing, of Chicago, pay tribute to the character and learning of the late Professor Minton Warren. Beside the usual reviews of books, Professor Hart's co-operative series...