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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...desire of the Germans to make their engravings look like paintings led to a very important advance in the art. Hitherto all the lines, with the exception of the outline, had been straight, but now the German school of engraving began to curve their lines, in order better to express the modelling. This resulted in great improvement in style. Mr. Koehler then showed by means of the stereopticon, photographs of several engravings illustrating this difference in line-shading, the originals of which will be on exhibition next Sunday at the Boston Art Museum...
...them, and we understand that a movement is on foot among some of the men to petition the faculty for the addition of a course in Anthropology to the curriculum for next year. Whether we have been rightly informed or not in regard to the movement, we wish to express hearty sympathy with such a sentiment, and would encourage those interested to place a petition before the faculty, for in the present list of electives very little knowledge of the socalled New Science can be acquired-a fact greatly to be deplored in a university of Harvard's aspirations...
...have heard a great number of students express regret that no such (?) as open to them and recently some of our most prominent professors have stated that such a course was needed and its absence from the list regular course inexplicable...
...Wednesday Mail and Express publishes about one half of a list of the 250 colleges in this country. It commences with Harvard, 1650, and gives the name of each president, his class and college society...
...very sorry to hear of the lack of willingness on the part of a good many men to support the University crew. Many who can afford to give to the crew, not only refuse to do so, but take occasion to express dissatisfaction that after the defeats in the past few years, they should be expected to take any interest in the crew...