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...first put in an appearance, and helped to lessen still further the interest taken by the small towns. The district schools absorbed all the educational energy of the commonwealth. Academies supported chiefly by the state, and large private schools sprang up and flourished in the last part of the eighteenth century, and have continued with little change almost down to our own day. These schools drew their students from all parts of the state, and absorbed still more of the educational interest...
...games of Saturday give very good grounds for the hope that it will be. The records made were in most cases very gratifying. Still more so was the skill in racing which many of the men showed. Harvard will put a strong team on the field on the eighteenth. Of the men who won places in Saturday's games, only one will be unable to compete against Yale, and that one took only a second place...
...services in Appleton Chapel last night were conducted by Bishop J. H. Vincent, D. D., who took for his text part of the eighteenth verse of the twenty-eighth chapter of St. Matthew: "And Jesus came and spake unto them...
Last evening in Sanders Theatre Mr. Humphrey Ward lectured on Romney, who with Sir Joshua Reynolds and Gainsborough formed the great trio of English artists in the eighteenth century. The substance of the lecture, the last of Mr. Ward's extremely interesting and instructive series, was as follows...
Lecture. English Art in the Eighteenth Century - IV. Romney. Mr. Humphrey Ward. Sanders Theatre...