Word: england
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...president of the University Debating Club is trying to arrange a series of eight or ten lectures, to be given at the Union, on the History of Public Speaking. In these lectures the lives of orators of Greece, Italy, Germany, France, England and America will be discussed. It is hoped that the speakers will be from the various departments of the University, and that the final lecture of the series will be given by Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson...
...Forum" contains an excellent article, by Price Collier '82 on "Ethics of Ancient and Modern Athletics." The writer begins with a very brief sketch of the origin and nature of our "modern system of athletic sports," which was introduced about 1812 by the Military College at Sandhurst, England, and compares the old Greek athletics,--their rules, methods and manners--with our own. Then follow several descriptions of ancient athletic contests as they have been recorded by Virgil--the boat races, the foot races, the wrestling contests, the sparring match and the archery contest of Anchises' funeral games. With these pictures...
Harvard College was founded in 1636. The gift of four hundred pounds, decreed by the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was augmented by more than double that amount through the will of John Harvard, a non-conforming clergyman of England, who died the following year. In consequence of this large bequest, the College was immediately opened at Cambridge (then Newton), and the name of Harvard bestowed upon...
...Pierian Sodality has this year decided to organize a chorus of forty-eight voices to sing in connection with the orchestra. The chorus will be coached by Mr. W. L. Whitney, of the New England Conservatory of Music, and Mr. Gustav Strube, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Several places in the first and second tenor parts are still unfilled, and men who wish to try for them may do so at the rehearsal tonight in Roberts Hall...
...achievements of Yale may be summed up in one sentence: For six generations she has in the main kept pace, not without some natural conservative hesitations, with this prodigious development of modern society, and, for America, has sometimes led the way,--notably in New England theology, in exact science, and in fitting young men for the new scientific professions; and today she sends into the service of commerce, the industries, government, and the professions, young men filled with the ideals of brotherhood, unity, and freedom, and so trained that they can promote these sacred ideals...