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...University of Moscow, where he was an instructor in history. He was the head of the revolutionary party in many insurrections and was chairman of the Educational Committee of Moscow. He resigned this position owing to difficulties with the government, and went to England, where he studied English social and legal history. He is the author of "The Rise of Federalism in Lombard Italy," "Inquiries into the Social History of England," "Villanage in England," and "The Growth of the Manor...
...John A. Lomax, a member of the English faculty of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, and at present in the Harvard Graduate School, is engaged, with our hearty approval, in an endeavor to make a complete collection of the native ballads and songs of the South and the West. It has occurred to us that some students may be able either to send him copies of such ballads or songs, which they may chance to know, or to call his attention to people in various parts of the country, who could help him discover such material. We therefore request...
...recent auction sale in New York the Library was able to buy, by means of the Dane gift, some twenty-five English plays. Among the more important of these may be mentioned: Marlowe's "Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta," 1633, first edition; Beaumont and Fletcher's "Knight of the Burning Pestle," 1635, second edition; Davenant's "Siege of Rhodes," 1670; Dryden's "Tempest," 1670, first edition, "Tyrannick Love," 1670, first edition, and "King Arthur," 1691, first edition, with the prologue and epilogue which are not in the edition of the same date already in the Library; Shadwell...
...seventh international cable chess match between teams from Harvard, Yale and Columbia and Oxford and Cambridge was played on Saturday, and resulted in a draw, each side winning two games. The other two games were drawn. The American team played at the Rice Chess Club, New York, while the English players were at the Metropolitan Chess Club in London. Q. A. Brackett '07 of Harvard and L. J. Wolff of Columbia won their games for America, and J. R. Hanning and N. J. Roughton scored for England...
...played today. The American team will begin play at New York this morning at 7.45 o'clock, to allow for the difference in time between this country and England. Each man will play one game, at the rate of 25 moves an hour, with a man representing the English team. The country winning the majority of games will win the challenge cup, which was won by Oxford two years...