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...Peabody Museum has recently received two rare boxes of birch bark, the gifts of Mrs. E. J. McNeil and Miss N. M. Betteley of Cambridge. The boxes are a hundred years old, and were made by Indians. They are ornamented with split spruce and with porcupine quills worked in colors. The Museum now owns five such boxes, and only one other museum in the country has any specimens of this rare Indian workmanship...
...SALE.- Steam Launch, cost $450 will sell for $175. New boiler this year. First-class fittings; also Birch Bark Canoe. Apply to janitor Weld Boat House...
...course was much interested in the farm and stock. Jefferson's income at this time was about $5,000 a year-$2,000 from his farm and $3.000 from his law practice. Jefferson's "agricultural book" showed much botanical knowledge and often curious mottoes were written on the bark of different trees. His lawns and gardens were his especial pleasure and he often said "Americans should pay especial attention to their lawns, for, as the country is new. There need be no limit to their extent." Jefferson's own lawns were beautifully situated for they extended west many acres...
...until just before the race this afternoon. Class 4 has been entered by Hollis French and J. W. Cartwright of the Puritan Canoe Club; George Batchelder, '92, and C. P. Cheney, '92, and by Wainwright, '91, and Crowninshield, '90. Crowninshield, '90. and Fessenden, '90, have entered for the birch bark class. Potter, 91, and Barr, '90, will act as judges. The race will take place at four o'clock in front of the Harvard boat houses Cups are offered as prizes...
...choir sang Shelley's anthem "Hark, bark, my soul," and "The shadow of the evening hour," by Barre...