Word: mays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Professor Shaler will give an address on the history of the society, and Mr. William T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Society, will deliver a lecture on "The Preservation of our Native Animals." Most of the tickets have already been disposed of, but a limited number may still be had on application to W. L. W. Field, 58 Hastings. After the lecture, the members of the society and a few invited guests are asked to meet Mr. Hornaday in University...
...Sargent is at present trying to arrange to have two basket ball teams from outside the college, composed of men who thoroughly understand the game, play an exhibition match in the Gymnasium, in order that the men here may understand the game better. Two games can be played at the same time in the Gymnasium, one on the floor and one in the cage, while in good weather a third field can be laid out on the asphalt court back of the Gymnasium. Though no regular teams have as yet been organized, scrub teams play every afternoon. Dr. Sargent does...
...lecture before the Cercle Francaise on "Le Caractere national de la Poesie lyrique francaise" last night Professor Harper said in substance: Of all the lyrical poets who appeared before the Classical period in French literature only three, Villon, Ronsard and Du Bellais, may properly be considered great. La Fontaine stands preeminent among the poets of the Classical period. In the eighteenth century there are no French poets of exceptional ability. In the nineteenth century, however, we find three, Andre Chenier, Alfred De Musset and Victor Hugo, the greatest of all French lyrical poets. Professor Harper thinks that, with the exception...
...Edward Atkinson will address the union this evening at 744 Mass. avenue, Cambridgeport. The lecture will be free to men and will begin at 8 o'clock. Following the lecture there will be a general discussion of the subject presented, in which any present may participate. The meeting promises to be one of unusual interest. Harvard men invited...
...against the Sophomores on January 10, showed pretty conclusively that the Freshman Club has been making steady progress this fall. The speakers have been chosen after two tests which gradually cut down the list, and from the quality of speaking displayed in these competitions, the men selected last evening may be expected to give a good account of themselves...