Word: london
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When on December 24, word was received from Harvard that she would take the risk of New London's course being appropriate for three crews the matter was ready for settlement. At the first meeting after the Christmas recess, complete and final action was taken. This action will it is believed be satisfactory to all parties. If Yale names the place this year, it is expected that she will allow Cornell to name the place next year. Harvard asks no privileges this year; there is hence no need of any proviso in accepting her challenge. Yale's suggestion...
...number of modern etchings, most of them on landscape subjects, have been given to the Fogg Art Museum, and are now on exhibition in the cases against the east wall of the Print Room. They were drawn by Francis Seymour Haden, a London surgeon in large practice, and James McNeil Whistler, the painter. They illustrate a variety of treatment known as the "open line," the "dry point," and "elaborate chiaroscuro." The set of Haden's Etchings was selected by him expressly for the Gray Collection of the Museum...
George Herbert, he said, on account of his ardent piety was early destined to service in the church. For this purpose he was sent to Westminister School at London, and from there to Trinity College in Cambridge. Ordinarily he would have immediately prepared for the priesthood, but his desire for honor still kept him at Cambridge, where he obtained the oratorship. At the death of King James, however, all his hopes of securing a position at court vanished, and the resulting disappointment was one of the main causes of his taking orders from the church. Through the Earl of Pembroke...
...current number of "The Bookman" (Doda, Mead and Company) contains a characteristic portrait of Kipling by W. Nicholson, a poem by James Lane Allen, and twenty pages of interesting literary gossip. There are also articles on miscellaneous literary subjects, London and Paris letters, reviews of new books, and chapters of a serial story. A portrait of C. M. Flandrau is accompanied by a paragraph, which says: "Harvard Episodes is not to be hastily ranked with the college story-book, which, so curiously amusing to insiders, is as curiously deceptive to outsiders...
...time for colleges which have been successful in their local races to re-form their crews and send them to Henley. Those university men who may not be rowing in a college crew entered at Henley can be and often are drafted into the crews of the Leander, London, Thames or Kingston Clubs...