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...party now being organized here, although its main purpose is that of hunting, will be in a country (Baffin Land) almost unknown to the scientific world. Save for a few whaling vessels it is unvisited the year round. The isolation and apparent inaccessibility of this land would seem to make the coming trip a particularly interesting one as well as an opportunity seldom to be taken advantage...
...number of the Advocate is in a healthier vein than usual. Of the four main articles, only one-"A Horse Race at Hot Sulphur," by Hal Sayre, Jr., '98-is of Western life, and this without any slaughter whatever. "On Being at Home in the World," an essay by R. P. Utter '98, is an attempt to prove "that the world is a better place to be at home in than a house of four walls...
...attempt has been made to organize a new shooting club, the main object of which shall be to encourage rifle and revolver practice in the University. Many men are interested in such shooting, but are unable to indulge in it, even in the present gun club, through want of proper privileges and grounds. These, as well as a liberal discount on ammunition used, the new club hopes to secure as soon as thirty or forty members are assured...
...walls of the main upper gallery of the Fogg Museum may now be seen a large collection of photographs from works by the German, Flemish and Dutch masters: Durer, Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyck and Rembrandt. They are, for the most part, portraits-including those of historical personages such as Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves, Charles I and Henrietta his Queen, William of Nassau, Edward VI, Philipe IV of Spain, Marie de Medicis, Descartes, Erasmus, Bishop Warham, and portraits by their own hands respectively of Duren, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Rembrandt...
...RENT.- Entire main front of house, No. 10 Appian Way, to a club of four to six students for college year '97-'98. Has rented thus in previous years. Enquire at house...