Word: givens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Eighty-four "Y's" have been given to Yale athletes this year as follows: In football, nineteen; baseball, fourteen; crew, sixteen; track team, thirty-three; gymnasium...
...announcement of courses in the Classical Department for the year 1898-99 has been made and the proof sheets are now posted in University Hall. Of the new courses the most important is one on "The History of Greek Drama" to be given next year by Professor White, which should be of interest to the undergraduates at large. No knowledge of Greek is required, as the reading may be done in eithther the original or in modern versions. The course, in outline, will be a study of the rise and development of Greek tragedy and comedy, and of the theatre...
Beside this course a new course on the "History of Heroditus" will be given by Dr. Botsford. Assistant Professors Morgan and Marsh will give a course on the "Works of Virgil with Studies of his Sources and Influence on the Literature of the Renaissance." Dr. Babbit will give a new course on "Rapid Reading of Homer's Iliad": Assistant Professor Morgan will give one on "The Early Career of Cicero"; Dr. Manning, on "Studies in the Life and Times of Ovid"; Professor Smith, an "Introduction to Latin Epigraphy"; Professor Greenough, an "Exposition of Roman Philosophy"; Assistant Professor Parker, on "Social...
...most valuable gift has been received by the Herbarium this year in the collection of autographs of botanists, given by Mrs. Asa Gray. This is the most valuable collection of its kind in the United States, and is surpassed by none but that in the British Museum. It contains about eleven thousand autographs and in many cases the photographs or engravings of the botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist...
...COLBERT, 323 Warren street, Boston Highlands. caterer and confectioner, has made extensive additions to his facilities in catering, and is prepared to receive and execute orders for receptions, banquets, public and private dinners, at short notice. Orders for cake, ices, ice creams, wedding cake, etc., given prompt attention. Telephone connection...