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Several prominent scientific societies will hold meetings in New Haven during the Christmas recess. The largest of these meetings will be that of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which includes the affiliated societies known as the American Morphological Society, the Association of American. Anatomists, the American Physiological Society, the American Psychological Society, the American Folk Lore Society, the Society of American Naturalists, the Society of Plant Morphology, and the Association of Anthropology. Dr. Sargent will read a paper on "The Relation of the Cephalic Index of Harvard students to Weight, Height, and Strength...
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., have recently published a book by Colonel T. W. Higginson '41, entitled "Contemporaries." The volume is a valuable series of sketches, most of which have been previously published in magazines, of famous men and women contemporary with Colonel Higginson. Among the best known names are those of Emerson, Whittier, Grant, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, and Theodore Parker. Colonel Higginson, in his simple and graceful style, has treated his subjects not as historical figures, but as living men and women. The sketches of Ulysses S. Grant, Wendell Phillips, and Theodore Parker are thoughtful and appreciative, and the reminiscences...
...separate organization for each branch of athletics, a general athletic association was substituted. According to the articles of the new system the control of all athletics is vested in a committee made up of five graduates and the captains and managers of the various teams. The graduates are known as the "advisory committee," and are elected by the alumni council. The undergraduate representatives, captains and managers, are to be elected, the former by the respective teams and the latter by the students. The undergraduate committee will virtually control affairs, but its decisions will be subject to the approval...
...English language as well as the Dutch should be used in the legislature. Consular representation between the Transvaal and the European states gave the Transvaal the status of an independent state. At the convention at London in 1884 the word "suzerainty" was omitted and thus it became a known fact that the Transvaal was independent. The drafter of the constitution admitted that he had purposely left the word out. In January Lord Chamberlain himself declared the Transvaal a foreign state and said that it would be immoral to interfere in internal affairs in South Africa. He asserted that the Boers...
This life of Cyrano de Bergerac will be relished by all who have been delighted with the romantic manliness and nobility of M. Rostand's hero. The actual Cyrano, it was known from the start, had been poetically idealized by M. Rostand; but the extent of the liberties with history could not hitherto be accurately determined. In the light of the present essay, the real Cyrano turns out to have been a brawler and a bully, full of the extravagance of the early free thinkers. "Not at all the man who after overcoming a hundred assassins could turn about...