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...views of the College Buildings. The best pictures and handsomest volume yet published. Only $1.50, at THURSTON...
...gallery. Here are many art treasures, including the Venus di Medici, found in the villa of Hadrian at Rome, the statue of Niobe, and numerous others. The great glory of Florence is the Duomo, or cathedral, built of black and white marble, with a tower, said to be the handsomest in the world. The baptistry of this church contains a number of famous bronze doors, one pair of which occupied the artist for twenty years...
Barnes Hall, the new Christian Association building at Cornell, is now almost completed. Though not the largest, it is certainly the handsomest on the campus...
Chas. W. Stewart was voted the most popular, and Jesse C. Dann the handsomest man in the class...
...that no longer occupies a part of the presentation week is the Wooden Spoon Ceremony. This custom had its origin at one of the colleges at Cambridge University, England. Before 1865, it was usual to give a jackknife to the homeliest man in the class, a cane to the handsomest, and a wooden spoon to the man who ate the most. Shortly before this year the plan was abbreviated somewhat. The wooden spoon was given alone-not as hitherto to the man whose gastronomic powers were best developed-but to the most popular man in the class. The wooden spoon...