Word: briefe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...colleges are arranged in alphabetical order with a statement of their income, number of students, instructors, buildings, and books, and a brief summary of their scope and history. A few supplementary pages give very interesting information concerning college fraternities, colors, yells, and publications, and the athletic records of the most prominent colleges...
Last evening in the Fogg Art Museum, Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, the editor of the Century Magazine, gave an address under the auspices of the Student Volunteer Committee, on "Public Opinion in America." Before his main address, he gave a brief account of the work of the Tenement House Commission of 1894, which to a large extent remedied the wretched condition of the tenement district of New York City. Mr. Gilder then spoke on the general subject of public opinion in the United States. He said those who are watching most closely and keenly the trend of events note...
...reading. It is well prefaced by the frontispiece-a facsimile of a print belonging to the Massachusetts Historical Society-"A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England." This picture was printed in 1726, and is the earlist view of the College. It is accompanied by a brief historical sketch by Dr. Samuel A. Green...
Last evening about thirty candidates for the lacrosse team met in the Trophy Room at the Gymnasium. Captain Burley opened the meeting and gave a brief sketch of the plans for the year and the method of training. There will probably be a trip to New York and Baltimore. A game with the Toronto club will be played in Cambridge...
...brief, although the present steward receives a salary which is, to say the least, very liberal, his management of the Hall is characterized by apparent indifference to the welfare of the members, so that the Hall is rapidly losing the popularity which it should have under proper management...