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...other new department is that o Anthropology, the first of its kind given in this country. Heretofore the term anthropology has been employed in this country, exclusively to denote that part of theological instruction which deals with the creation, fall and redemption of man. Scientific Anthropology, which this department is to teach, is entirely different from that: it is an empirical science based almost wholly upon careful field work among savages and primitive peoples. It embraces craniology, the minute study of savage languages, myths, religious rites and ceremonies, and the primitive industries, modes of warfare and habits of life...
Signor Paul Rosso for several years court interpreter in New Haven is the first Italian to enter the Yale Law school...
Every man on this list must be present at the first rehearsal this evening at 7 o'clock in Roberts hall...
Cups will be given to the first three men, and one to the man making the fastest time. R. H. Davis '91 will be handicapper. Entries, accompanied by an entrance fee of twenty-five cents must be made to R. H. Davis, '91, K. Brown '91, or T. Barron '91 on or before Tuesday, November 12. The start will be at 4 p. m. promptly and the finish shortly before 5 p. m. The following men have already entered: Holmes '92, Goodricb, '93, M. F. Hill, '93, A. H. Williams, '91, P, I'. Doe, '91, A. N. Barron...
...about. The subject will of course be approached from a non-partisan point of view, and Mr. Dana's great familiarity with political affairs cannot fail to make the meeting both interesting and instructive. It may be well to add, for the sake of those who are spending their first year at Cambridge, that the college conference meetings are managed entirely by the students, and that the topics and speakers are chosen by and for them alone. They form, therefore, or ought to form, just as much a feature of our college life as athletic contests or club meetings...