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...songs submitted the Football Song Committee yesterday chose "The Spirit of Harvard," by "Jingle," and "Cambridge Town," by "Gosh Billings," and "Bark Twaid," for trial at the mass meetings. The songs will be tried out at the Carlisle and Dartmouth games, and the song meeting with the most approval will be used at the Yale game. The names of the authors will not be disclosed until after the final selection has been made, in order that judgment of the songs may be fair...
...moral progress. The sum of human happiness, which ought to be a certain index of progress, cannot possibly be measured, either as to quantity or quality. The conclusion, as stated by Mr. Bryce in his final paragraph, is scarcely gratifying to the generally cock-sure twentieth century optimist. "The bark that carries man and his fortunes traverses an ocean where the winds are variable and the currents unknown. He can do little to direct its course, and the mists that shroud the horizon hang as thick and low as they did when the voyage began...
...Tenney of Cambridge, who has lived in China about 20 years, opened the entertainment with a short statement of the existing conditions in China. He said there were about 4,000,000 people, occupying an area of about 40,000 square miles, who were at present living on the bark of trees and on roots cooked in water...
Taking as his special title, "Running the Port Arthur Blockade" Mr. Emerson, with the help of excellent stereopticon views, told of his passage from Chee-foo to Port Arthur in a small, frail bark, of his reception by General Stoessel, of his expulsion from Port Arthur, and of his subsequent experiences on the Japanese side...
...interesting collections, which were made among the Seneca Indians on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York, have recently been received at the Peabody Museum. One of these, comprising pre-historic implements used in the preparation of food from corn, includes mortars, pestles, elm-bark dishes, corn-husk baskets, and ladles and spoons of wood. The other is a collection of the sacred paraphernalia, of a band of the Seneca tribe, which was worn in their sacred dances and ceremonies. It includes wooden and corn-husk masks, rattles of turtle shell and bark, and sacred tobacco...