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SAWIN MEMORIAL FUND.- Members of the University who kindly subscribed to this fund in the spring of 1890 with the understanding that the subscriptions, if not paid then, would fall due during this college year, are requested to send their contributions at their earliest convenience to the treasurer of the fund, Mr. Henry M. Spelman, 50 State St., Boston. A report of the progress of the fund is in preparation and will be sent to each contributor...
...Bowdoin Prize Dissertation on the "Present Stage of the Homeric Question" was read in Sever 5 last evening by Mr. C. H. Page. After giving a brief sketch of the early history of the question, Mr. Page told how Grote disengaged from the Iliad an Achilleis, representing the earliest form of the poem, and consisting of Books I, VIII, and XI, XXII, of our Iliad. Subsequent scholarship has confirmed Grote's main proposition, while changing considerably the limits of his Achilleis. Within the last decade several eminent German scholars have made a very careful study of the question. Chief among...
Glastonbury was appropriately treated first as it was the seat of the very earliest introduction and preaching of Christianity, and it is besides an interesting spot for another reason, that it was the Isle of Avon of the legends about King Arthur. It seems rather extraordinary now to hear this spoken of as the "Isle" of Avon, since it bears no resemblance to an Island whatsoever; but the deep marshes around the spot formerly were entirely under water, leaving the "Isle" high and dry. The ruins here are beautiful. Iona and Tyne Mouth were illustrated and the course...
Then ensues an interesting account of Capt. John Smith's connection with Southwark, of some of the earliest manuscript maps of Capt. Smith and Gov. Winthrop which bear a relevance to early New England history. In conclusion, Mr. Winsor gives it as his opinion that John Harvard was not acquainted with Capt. Smith since at the time of the latter's death in 1631, Harvard was still a student at Cambridge. Smith's name had been for some time one of romantic interest, however, and there was much truth in the epitaph put above his grave-"the grim King...
Princeton College has received a gift of over 30,000 pieces of pottery and porcelain, illustrating the history and progress of art from the earliest Egyptian period down to the present time...