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Programs, at 20 cents each, and all information about the meeting may be had from Mr. C. D. Atkins, 111 South Fifteenth street, Philadelphia...
...fifteenth annual tournament for the interscholastic lawn tennis championship in singles will be held under the auspices of the Lawn Tennis Association on Saturday, May 6, and Monday, May 8, on Jarvis Field. The school winning the greatest number of matches will receive a shield, and first and second individual prizes will be awarded. As Harvard intercollegiate champion the winner of the tournament will be eligible to enter the national interscholastic championship at Newport next August. Each entrant will be charged $1 and each school represented will be required to pay the annual dues of $5, but the number...
...Sandys graphically described the homes of the Italian humanists--the scholars of the Renaissance--by taking his audience in an imaginary journey through the principal Italian cities of the fifteenth century. Leaving Florence we enter Venice, the portal through which Greek literature passed from the East to the West, and crossing back to the mainland, we proceed to the stately city of Parma. To the humanists it was a place of transient rather than of permanent abode, yet its interest in the classics was exemplified in 1413 by the sensation created there over the alleged discovery of the bones...
...Professor Willcox said, have long realized the importance of vital statistics, which the United States did not seriously consider until the last census. On the records then obtained, however incomplete, we may base a comparison of the populations of Europe and the United States. Europe, which comprises only one-fifteenth of the total land area of the world, supports one-fourth of its population. At present the rate of increase of population in the United States is nearly twice as large as that of Europe, but the two are gradually approximating. He then went on to show that the heavy...
Permit me to call the attention of your readers to the fact that there is now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum the so-called Fairfax Murray (or Seddon) portrait of Chaucer, which, next to the illumination by this disciple Occleve in a manuscript of the early fifteenth century, is probably the best likeness of the poet in existence. Alongside it in the Museum has been placed a book describing all extant portraits of Chaucer, with a photographic reproduction of each...