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Professor C. S. Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, will all from New York next Friday, in company with his son, A. R. Sargent '00, and Mr. John Muir, the distinguished naturalist of the Pacific coast, for an extended trip through Europe and northern Asia in the interest of the Arboretum. Landing at Liverpool, the party will travel through Holland, France and Germany to St. Petersburg and Moscow, and thence over the Trans-Siberian railway to Pekin, making stops at frequent intervals along the way. From Pekin they will go to Hong Kong and Java, and then returning to Hong...
...last meeting of the Yacht Club, plans were made for two club cruises along the New England coast during the coming summer, one to the south and the other to the north of Cape Cod. For the south shore cruise, the fleet will rendezvous at New London on Friday, June 26, the day following the Harvard-Yale boat races, and will sail eastward, making daily runs suited to the size of the boats entered. For the north shore cruise, the fleet will start from Marblehead on Monday, August 3, on the completion of the mid-summer yacht racing series...
...Department of Philosophy announces a series of six lectures by Mr. Charles Sanders Peirce '59, Formerly assistant in the U. S. Coast Survey and for some time lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, to be given in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock on successive Thursday evenings, beginning March 26. The subject will be "Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking." The lecturer will discuss the development of this philosophical system, its definition, its scope, and its application to the sciences, to philosophy, and to the conduct for life. The lectures will be open to the public...
...United States Civil Service Commission announces examinations to be held in Boston, March 24 and April 21, for the following positions: (1) Laboratory Assistant; (2) Skilled Mechanic, Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C.; (3) Aid, Coast and Geodetic Survey; (4) Pharmacist. Further information may be obtained at the office of the Appointment Committee, 9 University Hall...
Professor Clifford H. Moore of the Classical Department will deliver a lecture on "The Shrine of Aesculapius at Epidaurus," in the Fogg Lecture Room at 8 o'clock this evening. Epidaurus is situated on the eastern coast of Greece and the shrine of Aesculapius located here is one of the most ancient of the old Greek temples still standing. The shrine was erected to Aesculapius, the Greek god of healing, and it is known that the temple was the principal place of worship of this deity from the sixth century B. C. until about the year 200 A. D. There...