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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...much one of the stock characters of the woods story as the rascally slave of Latin comedy; but three appearances in one week is overworking him, and the reader would sympathize if he struck. Mr. Ashwell writes of a day's fishing in Devon, in which he found sober English trout properly shy of big and gaudy American flies; but the discovery has not chastened his adjectives. The propensity to fine phrases is the besetting temptation of many college writers--not the exuberance of fancy which is attributed to youth, but the exuberance of dictionary which makes some fashionable authors...
...graduate committee consisting of Professor G. P. Baker '87, Winthrop Ames '95, director of the New Theatre in New York City, and H. T. Parker, dramatic critic of the Boston Transcript. "The Promised Land" was chosen out of six plays referred to the committee. It was written for English 47, Professor Baker's course on the "Technique of the Drama...
...Professors J. B. Thayer '52, J. C. Gray '59 and J. Smith '56. The pictures of Professor Gray and Professor Smith are new and were recently presented by the Law School Association; the others were formerly hung in Austin Hall. The famous collection of over 200 engravings of English jurists is also being moved from Austin Hall to the new building, where there is plenty of space, and much greater safety from injury...
...public. The subjects, which will sometimes overlap from one lecture to another, will be as follows: 1--Introduction, the Middle Ages. 2--15th Century, the Revival of Learning. 3--16th Century, the French Period. 4--17th Century, the Dutch Period. 5--18th Century, the English Period. 6 and 7--19th Century, the German Period...
...lifting power of the atmosphere and the heating power of gas were discovered that man first rose in the air. Only two years after the discovery of the balloon, Dr. Jeffries of Boston made an ascent for a scientific study of the atmosphere, and soon after crossed the English Channel in his balloon. As was found out after these experiments, the upper strata of the air at a distance of more than five or six miles from the earth, were both too cold and too rarefled for human beings. Mechanical contrivances for recording temperature and pressure were therefore devised...