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During the winter, Dr. Cameron was given access to the shelves in the GoreHall Library, and about a month later it was found that a number of valuable book-plates had been removed. The matter was put into the hands of a detective who learned that Dr. Cameron had sold certain of the missing plates. At the same time, circulars were sent to many collectors of book-plates, requesting them to send to the Library any Harvard book-plates which might possibly have been among the stolen set. The response to this appeal was very ready. A large number...
...those specially in-in the subjects, but none are of an exceptional nature or of general importance. The most significant is "An Opportunity," by W. G. Brown '91, a very readable plea for a higher form of teaching, to be provided by the future occupant of the recently founded Dorman B. Eaton Professorship of Government. The writer points out that the terms of Mr. Eaton's bequest provide not merely for a new chair, but for a new sort of chair. The broader, less academic, more human teaching that Mr. Eaton hoped for will be an innovation...
Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p. m. Rev. Newman Smyth, D.D., of New Haven, Conn. Rev. George Hodges, D.D., will conduct morning prayers from June 4 to June 9. He may be found at Wadsworth House 1 daily from 9 till...
Theatricals for next year were decided upon provisionally. The intention at present is to give a one-act modern French farce as a curtain-raiser, to be followed by "Crispin Medecin," a short three-act play, similar in character to the works of Moliere. It may be found in Victor Fournel's collection of seventeenth-century comedies at the French library in Warren House; and also in a volume entitled "Repertoire du Theatre Francais...
...these thoughts can only bring sadness. The early days of the war were full of doubt and terrible anxiety for all; and as the struggle went on, the suffering and bloodshed increased month by month. Through it all, the men who had left Harvard to join the army were found wherever courage and patriotism were most needed. The spirit they showed at that time exists in no less measure today, for it is the inheritance of Harvard, and will always be part of her teaching. It was not wanting two years ago when other men of this University offered their...