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...bicycle road race between Harvard and Technology will take place next Saturday afternoon. The start will be promptly at 2.30 and the race will take about an hour. The finish will be near St. Mary's street, on the Beacon street boulevard. There will probably be a large number of entries from each club, but only the first five men from each side will count at the finish. There will be a run over the course today and Thursday in order that the competitors may become familiar with the turns. The joint committee have considered the question of a perpetual...
...public lecture in Sanders Theatre, Tuesday, October 30th at 4 p. m., the subject to be "L' Art du Comedien." Americans know M. Coquelin only as a great comedian, but in the Parisian world he figures as an able lecturer as well. At the Salle des Conferences on the Boulevard des Capucines his lectures are heard and appreciated by audiences accustomed to the discourses of such men as Francisque Sarcey and Henri de Lappommeraye. M. Coquelin is the type of a French gentleman in every sense of the word; an intelligent actor and a profound scholar...
...will be eighteen feet high and twenty feet wide. Most of the buildings are to be built in the Spanish style, having but one story. There will be fourteen buildings in all, and the enclosure formed by them will be paved with concrete. It will be divided by a boulevard running from the south to the north entrance. The arcade is designed to permit communication between the buildings without exposure to the weather. The main entrance to the court is through a memorial arch, which is to have a frieze running around the top, illustrating the progress of California...
...Valles, the revolutionist, last Friday. A delegation of German Socialists occupied a place in the funeral procession, bearing a wreath of violets, adorned with a red scarf, and hanging from a long pole. The emblem bore the inscription, " From the German Socialists of Paris." The students, who lined the boulevard, began a commotion with shouts of " Down with the Germans," mingled with the revolutionary cheering; and then a group of long-haired youths made a rush at the Tenton who was carrying the violet wreath. The onset was resisted, but was again renewed, and from that time till the river...
...Parisian student is a study. When he wishes to say that he has made a 'spurt,' or a 'rush,' or a 'flunk,' he calls upon words that would assuredly be distracting to the classic Corneille, were that old gentleman here to catch them. To the student, the Boulevard Saint Michel is the Boul Mich; his 'den' is his boite. . . . The Parisian students do not, to any great extent, indulge in rowing, athletics or gymnastics. Fencing is the exercise that seems to be most in vogue, while boxing has also made some headway among the youth of France. They...