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...ball nearly the entire length of the field for a touchdown. Pierce scored from the 10-yard line and Frothingham kicked the goal. Yale showed decided improvement at the beginning of the second half. They advanced the ball forty yards by straight rushing, in which Messenger made the greatest gains. This was followed by an exchange of punts. Yale took the ball again near the middle of the field and rushed it to Harvard's 20-yard line. A place kick was tried, but Smith who held the ball fumbled, and Pierce recovered the ball for Harvard. Yale...
...hospitals, reading-rooms and charity homes. The text-book loan library in Brooks House is supplied with books acquired in this collection and especially needs those books used in large courses such as History 1, Government 1, Economics 1, and English A, as the demand for these is the greatest...
...collection of works by Nanteuil is large, and of good average quality, but Mr. Bullard's collection contains a greater number of prints of rare excellence. In fact, two-thirds of this series consists of either first states or the only states of the plates represented. Nanteuil was the greatest master of pure line engraving of his age, and no such engraving of any time is superior to his. He was himself a portraitist of consummate skill, and many of these engravings are from his own works...
...around us which are persistently slipping by, through a lack of foresight. When the announcement of a course of lectures by some eminent historian or a series of concerts appears early in the College year one looks forward to it with the keenest anticipation; the danger is that the greatest pleasure which will be gained is in this same delightful anticipation, for when the time comes, there is a duty or an obligation of some sort which makes it impossible to attend...
...Middle Ages" we could not have had more. As a teacher of the History of the Fine Arts in Harvard University Professor Norton strove, by directing attention to the finest historic monuments, to awaken an appreciation of the nature and worth of beauty, and to show that the greatest artistic achievements of past times have borne witness to what moral integrity and exalted ideals have entered into the make-up of peoples endowed with natural artistic aptitudes...