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...Tuesday the Yale Alumni Association of New York held its first meeting of the season at Sherry's. During the last year the membership has increased from about 300 to 535. About 300 men were present at the meeting. The Yale eleven was there in full force including the second eleven and all the substitutes. Chauncey Depew, the president, made the speech of the evening. Other speeches were made by Judge Howland, John Oakey, and J. H. Bromley...
...securing it, as both Harvard and Leland Stanford Universities were trying to purchase it. The Moak collection contains about 13,000 volumes and its original cost was something over $100,000. Mr. Moak spent thirty years in gathering it and took great pains in its collection. It has full federal reports; reports of every court of New York state, reports of every court of last resort in the various states, comparatively complete Australian and New Zealand reports, full Canadian reports and complete British reports from the time of the year books to the present day. In addition there...
...rightly felt that their energies and powers were not altogether barbarous. We have seen how the infusion of their blood and their culture had a vivifying effect on those portions of the Roman Empire which came later to be the Romance nations. Modern life and modern literature are alike full of traces of the Germans, hence it is highly interesting to see how they developed at home, and unmixed with Latin blood, a modern society and art. This development began with their invasion of the Roman world, which produced in them a great excitation of all their powers, very much...
...last Tennyson was progressive. His thought was more profound, and his diction more energetic. There is no need of a softening of criticism as we read his last volume. This little book of less than a thousand lines possesses more than a sentimental value. It shows to the full Tennyson's bread+++h, variety, suggestiveness, and purity of diction...
Until he hurt his neck, Fennessy, at full back, played a splendid aggressive game, and his bucking was always productive of gain. After that, however, he could do little but block off and tackle, but this that he could do he did almost faultlessly...