Word: fours
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...Francis Boott prize of $100 for "the best composition in concerted vocal music" has been awarded to P. G. Clapp '09, of Roxbury, Massachusetts. The prize, which is given for the best composition for four voices and organ accompaniment, was not awarded last year, since no composition was deemed satisfactory...
During the past week the partisans of the four major teams have been silent. Their sports have not been endangered by the recent proposal of the Athletic Committee, except in the case of the track team, which would lose its annual relay race with Yale. Here is one of the four major teams holding hard practice from the end of the Christmas vacation until the end of the season in May, with but a few weeks of rest in March. The baseball team also begins work early in the year, although its games do not commence until after the first...
...first round of the interclass chess tournament will be played tonight in the Game Room of the Union, starting at 7.30 o'clock. The Seniors will play the Juniors, and the Sophomores the Freshmen. Each class will be represented by four men, but the teams have not been definitely chosen. C. T. Broderick '08, W.W. Parshley '09, D. B. Childs '10, and G. Bosson '11 are captains of their respective teams. The winners of the matches tonight will play for the championship Thursday...
Professor A. O. Norton '98 will give the second of a series of four illustrated lectures on "Mediaeval and Early Modern Education" in the lecture room on the first floor of Robinson Hall at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. The subject of today's lecture is "Some Aspects of Mediaeval Student Life." It will be illustrated by lantern slides from rare wood-cuts and other sources and interspersed by readings from contemporary documents. The subjects and dates of the two remaining lectures are: April 27--"The Italian Revival of Learning: Its Influence upon Education"; May 4--"Humanism in the German...
...vigorous exercise and purity, should be favored by the Faculty, because the contestants, as in tennis and rowing, are not subject to the temptation offered for dirty work. But the proposed plan of those in power is to cut out even this team, which, moreover, has only four contests a year, necessitating two absences only, from Cambridge. Surely the time taken away from studies to prepare for these contests, especially when practice is very light, because of the lack of a pool, can hardly be said to injure a swimmer's standing in the University. PAUL WITHINGTON. ALLEN SWIFT...