Word: life
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Count Riant was a thorough scholar, who had devoted his life to the study of the Crusades and all historical questions connected with them. As the founder of the "Societe de l' Orient Latin," as a prolific author, and as a keen learned expert in the study of manuscript, he has done more than any other modern writer to advance our knowledge in this field. At his chateau in the Valadis where he passed his summers, he had gathered a great library of books relating to the subject of his studies, and it is the portion of this collection relating...
...Boylston Chemical Club. Talks: Life of Bunsen. Mr. W. J. Hale.--Modern Methods of Sewage Disposal. Mr. R. B. Earle. Boylston...
...poetry, "A War Song of the Nez Perces," by Erskine Wood '01, is coherent, fairly rythmical, and seemingly original; a "Sonnet," by Edward Richard, is conventional. A series of "Western Sketches," printed anonymously, are appreciative bits of prose and verse, treating of California life and scenery...
...spring, when a new committee was formed by combining the old University Club and Memorial Committees. The committee decided last spring that the best form of memorial to the Harvard men who died in the Spanish war, would be a building which should be so connected with the daily life of the students that the memory of our volunteers should be constantly impressed on each successive generation of Harvard students. It is hoped that the club may be made an undergraduate centre by having offices provided in it for the various College papers, meeting places for the different societies...
...most fully realized. It has brought together all classes and departments, has centralized all, or nearly all of the organizations which the university supports--its athletic association, publications, religious and literary societies, besides affording meeting rooms for committees and classes. It has become in fact the centre of university life. It is confined to no special department of the university nor is it in its influence more or less beneficial to students possessing social position and means than to those who possess neither. In other words, it appeals to all sorts of students and inasmuch as the club does this...