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...spite of the many difficulties it has had to contend against, the Art Club has taken a new departure which promises to be very successful and to add much interest to its meetings. Yesterday evening a meeting was held, at which a collection of pottery and old china was exhibited, besides a number of valuable books on art, illustrated by fine engravings, the loan of Professor Norton. Periodical meetings of the same kind are to be regularly held. All those who take the Art Electives, or who even have a vague taste for objects of Art, would do well...
...house in the hands of the club officers. The result of this will be that boats will be more regularly repaired, and better taken care of, all complaints and desired changes will be more readily attended to, and the ownership of the boats will bring with it an additional interest in boating. We will remind our readers that they are not asked to subscribe money for an indefinite purpose, but to join an association from which they may derive much pleasure...
WITH the hope of adding a new interest to our College races, and of providing a means by which the winning crews may have the record of their victories more certainly insured than by memory or tradition, the Crimson Board at its last meeting voted to offer a silk flag every year to the crew winning the first race; the flag to bear the name of the club to which it is awarded, and to be placed (with the concurrence of the Boat Club) among the flags won by the University crews. By this means it is hoped that...
...style in which the Harvard crew is rowing. Mr. Dana, their coach, has recently visited England, and under his training the men show great improvement over their work of last year. They give promise of being an excellent eight, and the contest will undoubtedly be of unusual interest. - Record...
Professor Norton was warmly welcomed by the members present (a majority, we are happy to state), and the interest he has always so kindly professed in the Club seemed doubled by the resolution evident in all to make the Art Club worthy of the name it bears. At his suggestion it was decided that the fortnightly meetings should be converzationi of an entirely social nature, at which Art in any one of its various branches should be discussed. This plan was most successfully carried out at the subsequent meeting, last Thursday, when Modern Pottery and Porcelain formed the subject...