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Lynwood Sylvester Bryant '29, of East Northfield was the recipient of the first undergraduate Bowdoin prize of $250 in English for an essay entitled, "Fate in Hardy's Novels". Two second prizes of $100 each were awarded to Robert Gorham Davis '29, of Cambridge, and to Harold Freeze Folland '29, of Salt Lake City, Utah, for essays on: "Discors Concordia" The Imagination of John Donne", and "Theophilus Cibber: An Essay in Biography," respectively. Three other Seniors received Honorable Mention. These were Kermit Negley Murdock '29, of New York; Dana Morton Doten '29, of Cambridge; and Alfred H. Hirsch...
...landlord to the large district between Mount Auburn Street and the river Harvard has shown little more civic pride. Houses are rented and inhabited which would be better fitted to the surroundings of East Boston. Even in Shepherd Hall, a college dormitory, the accommodations are a disgrace to present-day housing standards...
...simple meals were prepared by himself over a small open stove, which served at once for heat and cookery. Eating, however, was always treated as a subordinate and incidental business, deserving no fixed time, no dishes, nor the setting of a table. The peasants of the East, the monks of Southern monasteries, live chiefly on bread and fruit, relished with a little wine; and Sophocles, in spite of Cambridge and America, was to the last a peasant and a monk. Such simple nutriments best fitted his constitution, for "they found their acquaintance there...
...Western world had come to him by accident, and was ignored; the East was in his blood, and ordered all his goings. Yet, as a grave man of the East might, he had his festivities, and could on occasion be gay. Among a few friends he could tell a capital story and enjoy a well-cooked dish. But his ordinary fare was meagre in the extreme. For one of his heartier meals he would cut a piece of meat into bits and roast it on a spit, as Homer's people roasted theirs. "Why not use a gridiron?" I once...
...Boylston Hall was erected--again, largely through the efforts of Professor Cooke. At first there was only one large room on the east side of the first floor occupied by the Chemical Laboratory, but gradually the Anatomical Museum, the Department of Music, the Peabody Museum, and the Mineralogical Collection were crowded out until the chemists occupied the whole building. It was remodeled and enlarged in 1895, but in spite of this the building was again soon filled to over flowing...