Word: london
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Sebastian on one wing and a St. Francis on the other; and a small Holy Family of the sixteenth century, in oil color, which has the characteristics of the works of Correggio. An Ionian Greek vase of the seventh century has been received from Mr. Charles F. Murray of London, and a drawing after Michael Angelo by Brenourry has been received from Professor C. E. Norton. The Department of Fine Arts has acquired and deposited in the Museum a lead pencil and wash drawing of Chamouni by John Ruskin--a work of the "Modern Painters" epoch, which was Ruskin...
...preparation for it, but a greater one. Greater because, as I have previously pointed out, of the difference in weather conditions during the contest, and during the period of preparation for it, because of the added worry of the final examinations, and further because our race at New London is, if anything, slightly longer in time. It is true that the Oxford-Cambridge race is about three-eighths of a mile longer than our race, but the rate of flow in the river there is so much greater than at New London, that the time required to cover the longer...
Programme: Schumann, Overture, "Genoveva"; Mozart, Aria, "II Seraglio"; Edward Elgar, Overture, "Cockaigne" (In London Town); A. Thomas, Aria, Mad Scene from Hamlet; Brahms, Symphony...
...race was at New London, and was three-cornered,--Yale and Cornell being the other two crews. The crew in this race was certainly in good condition, but it did not contain good material, and what speed it had could only be shown, in smooth water. Harvard was last in the race...
...class crews. Each pair of class crews raced together to decide which should represent the class as a whole, and the winning crews raced just before Easter. The programme for the University squad was exactly the same in 1900 as in '99, both in Cambridge and New London. Unfortunately the Harvard crew met with a series of accidents, and the race was won by Yale in the last half mile...