Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The lecturer stated briefly the general character of "Religio Medici," "Vulgar Errors," Urn Burial," "A Letter to a Friend," and, the most fantastic of all Browne's works, the "Garden of Cyrus." He commented upon the Latin origin of much of Sir Thomas's writings, upon its quaintness, its dignity...
A prize to be known as the Grant Squires prize, to be awarded at commencement at the close of every quinquennial period, to such graduate as shall be adjudged most worthy by a committee of award for conducting an original investigation of a sociological character, was also established.
Mr. Francis C. Lowell, a lawyer of Boston, has written a volume on "Joan of Arc," in which he has made a very careful study of all the phenomena of this unique character, and has given special attention to the trial. Houghton, Mifflin and Co. will publish it shortly.
"Chartism: Its Character and Influence."
The ice-polo agreement with Brown will increase the interest in this sport at Harvard. The fact that the team has this year been selected in an open competition gives it a representative character which it has not had before. It is greatly to be hoped, therefore, that the intercollegiate...