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Dates: during 1900-1909
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DEAR SIRS:--It is my wish to endow the Professorship of Otology in the Medical School of Harvard College in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, the Professorship to bear the name of "Walter Augustus Lecompte," this sum to be kept as a separate fund under the name given, and any surplus of income not needed to pay the salary of the incumbent to be devoted to defraying the expenses of the Department of Otology in the Medical School of Harvard College. Yours truly, FRANCIS D. LECOMITE...
...performance of two plays, "The Three Strangers," an adaptation from Thomas Hardy's story of the same name, by L. Hatch '05, and "The Geneva Consul," an original farce, by Miss Winifred Meyer, will be given in Agassiz House, Radcliffe College, this evening and tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. "The Three Strangers" was written last year as a part of the prescribed work in English 47, and has been staged under the direction of Mr. Hatch and Professor Baker. The casts are composed chiefly of graduates and undergraduates of Harvard and Radcliffe...
...others cover the same ground and cannot therefore be counted towards a degree. It is then an actual fact that the entire history of painting, sculpture and architecture, ancient and modern, is covered by three courses! And, more-over, one of these, though it is disguised under the name of the "History of Landscape Painting," is really a history of the art of John Turner. No one would term Fine Arts 3, which covers one-half the field, a comprehensive treatment of ancient art. But the attempt in Fine Arts 4 to cover really efficiently the history of painting, sculpture...
Members of the University who desire to submit work should leave it, plainly marked with their name and address, in charge of the librarian at Robinson Hall before noon next Saturday...
Criticism, said Mr. Murray, has to a great extent shattered the former conception that the Iliad was written by one man--Homer. Even if the poet had a name, we know nothing of him. It seems more probable that he was an imaginary ancestor, invented to receive the worship of his admirers. It is at any rate assured that the incomparable poet did not write the whole Iliad, but that it was a work of successive ages, and probably, at the end of a long period of gradual development, fell into the hands of some great poet. Although criticism...