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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...extraordinarily refreshing to find that Mr. Fox has written his book in his own way, not in Kipling's or Stevenson...
...deal more minutely with the somewhat different methods in use at the Harvard School, we find that most other institutions of architectural training base their ideas almost exclusively on the example set by the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts. At Harvard the strong points of the French School in plan and composition are profited by as far as possible, but instead of following the tradition of the Ecole in the working out of designs and especially in the treatment of detail which are often of questionable taste, the student is encouraged to found his work on a study...
...boats have been found in the past three years the most effective means of teaching watermanship to the thirty-three men who have graduated from the Weld to Class and 'Varsity trial crews. Furthermore we wish to have most of our rowing done in light boats, because men generally find shell rowing as a steady diet much more agreeable than rowing in barges. The Weld members will have available for their use this year seven eight-oared shells, six light fours and one four-oared shell. No candidate who rows regularly and is physically equal to the work will...
...love, and that love has a right to everything. Such a conception was new in French literature. It was the outcome of Rousseau's theories and of the belief in the goodness of instinct. Later, this conception came to permeate French literature, and it was still later that we find in novels and plays the trio of the incomparable woman, the sublime lover and the tyrannical husband. A reaction against this conception took place in Flaubert and the younger Dumas...
...DUNSTER STREET, Annex to the University Cafe. To Let, Club and Training Tables. Gentlemen who are particular about their bread and pastry will find it to their advantage, as I have my own bakery connected with the cafe...