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...present holds an important government appointment for the preservation and scientific study of works of art in Rhenish Prussia. He has also taken great interest in the development of the Harvard Germanic Museum. His courses at this University will be three in number, extending through the first half-year: (1) German and French art from the beginning of the middle ages to the eighteenth century; (2) a seminary on mediaeval German sculpture, with demonstrations in the Germanic Museum; (3) German art in the nineteenth century. These courses will be open to the public and will be illustrated by the stereopticon...
Elihu Root, "Lawyer, jurist, statesman, Secretary of War for four years and a half, now for two years Secretary of State, a diplomatist who represents not a dynasty, or a cabinet, but a people, an envoy of good faith and good will among the nations...
...will sail from New York on the Deutschland at 8 o'clock Thursday morning. His course of lectures at the University of Berlin will extend through the first semester which closes in February, when he will return to this country and conduct his usual courses during the second half-year. The subject of his lectures will be the History of English Literature from the Norman Conquest to the Elizabethan Era. He will also give a seminary course on Arthurian Romance...
...Navy Yard in the launch. On account of the rough water the crew climbed into their shell just below the Navy Yard and rowed upstream over the last two miles of the University course. Bacon kept his stroke about 30 to 32 until the last half-mile, when he raised the pace to 34. The crew as a whole did not row as well as it has for the past few days. The men on the starboard side of the shell all pulled short at the finish of their stroke during the last half of the distance. Nevertheless the time...
...University eight rowed downstream about a mile and a half this morning accompanied by Wray in his single scull. A moderate stroke was maintained and the boat went better than it has at any other time this year. In the afternoon, however, the showing was less satisfactory. The crew went downstream again to the Navy Yard and back in long stretches--and one half-mile was rowed with a stroke of 38, which was raised to 40 in the last 100 yards. The boat travelled better with the fast stroke than it did with the slow. Nevertheless, the work...