Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...those we gravely call historical characters, of which each new historian strains his neck to get a new and different view, in any sense more real than the personages of fiction? Do not serious and earnest men discuss Hamlet as they would Cromwell or Lincoln? Does Caesar, does Alaric, hold existence by any other or stronger tenure than the Christian of Bunyan or the Don Quixote of Cervantes or the Antigone of Sophocles? Is not the history which...
...American Oriental Society will hold its annual meeting at Columbia College in New York city, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 29, 30 and 31. This society was founded in 1842, and had its first meeting at Harvard...
...been advertised for next Saturday. The reason was a lack of entries. The games committee made every effort to get out enough men to make the meeting a success but as only one event was assured in the sparring it was felt that it would be manifestly unjust to hold a meeting and charge admission. The only reasonable explanation for the small number of entries is that the interest in sparring and wrestling is dying out at Harvard. In the shot contest there was an encouraging sign of interest...
...With free raw material, the absence of a duty on refined sugar would hold in check the Sugar Trust...
...club will hold its first regular shoot at the grounds next Monday afternoon. A large cup has been given to be shot for in handicap matches this spring, and a match will be shot in May against Yale, Princeton, and University of Pennsylvania for a valuable trophy given by "Shooting and Fishing." Yale won the last shoot for this cup, and Harvard needs every man who shoots to practice for the team. There will also be matches against the B. A. A. and the Country Club during the spring, if they can be arranged...