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...Mandolin Club gave its first performance this year on Friday evening at the first of a series of four informal performances given by the Boston Art Students' Association at the studio on Dartmouth street, back of the Art Museum. The club played four of its new Spanish airs in an extremely delicate manner, and were obliged to respond to an enthusiastic encore. Mr. Howells and Mr. Payson also played the Neapolitan polka "Fiorentinella" as a duet. After the music Mr. Walker gave a short lecture on Spain and art in general, and the evening was spent socially. The club will...
...Jefferson Physical Laboratory on the occasion of the first of a series of lectures on the Acropolis of Athens. Dr. J. R. Wheeler, the lecturer, at the beginning, stated that the lecture was merely an introduction to the other lectures. With the aid of the stereopticon, he gave a graphic description of Athens, of the various plains and mountains surrounding the town, and of the two or three small rivers flowing between the hills. The history of the Acropolis can be divided into nine periods, corresponding to the historical periods of the city. They are: 1, from the earliest times...
...conditions-prince and burgher, wealthy and poor-all began to be filled with a desire for union, for a strong centralized government. The causes of the growth of nationality lie in the political events of 1858, when William came to the throne, when the reactionary ministry of Mannteuffel gave way to the liberal policy of Autin von Hohenstaufen in Prussia's successful war of 1864 against Schleswig-Holstein and in the Prussian war of 1866. In the war of 1870 this national feeling shows itself perhaps at its best. This desire for union is manifest in the welcome which...
...closing, Mr. Villard gave a short sketch of the first new emperor and of his chancellor, and showed how one was necessary to the other...
Professor Wright gave his second lecture yesterday afternoon in Sever 11. The lecture, as the previous one, was well attended, many students who are not taking the Greek courses to which these lectures are introductory being present, as well as others who have no connection with the university but are interested in the subjects treated...