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...define more clearly the special object of the course, it may be stated that the idea of its promoters is to establish a systematic culture in exercise, and to reduce sport to a scientific basis. With that end in view, the lectures will go back to the earliest known times, and the history of gymnastics will be traced, and therefrom will be deduced results, so that the student can get for his own work the proper methods...
...been said that something like the present literary exercises of Class-day existed from the earliest years of the college, and records of them can be traced as far back as 1648. The exercises were of an extremely serious and weighty nature and little resembled those of the present day. The size of the graduating classes in the early years of the college made the present institution of Class-day impossible. Like other customs, then, at Harvard, Class-day is a development. It was never formally created but grew from an intermingling of several ancient festivities, more especially those...
...unfortunate victims and the terrible ordeals which they had to meet. It was not till 1693 that belief in witchcraft all over the world began to undergo a change. Mr. Edward G. Mason contributes a paper on "Early Visitors to Chicago" in which he gives a description of the earliest visitor to Chicago - beginning with La Salle in 1671 - and what was their reported condition of the country. "The Annals of an Ancient Parish" by Rev. W. H. Savage gives a good account, - with illustrations of familiar places in this neighborhood - of the early churches in Watertown and vicinity...
Columbia College possesses the famous Rutherford photographs which are the earliest made photographs of the moon and were taken in the Lick Observatory...
...School.All seniors whose last names begin with the letters D, E, F. G, will please sit for their photographs at Pach Bros. at once. All others please sit at their earliest convenience...