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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...danger attending the unrestricted nominating of Class Day officers which Nineteen Hundred is not taking sufficient account of? I refer to the danger that the best men may be defeated at the election of the votes of the class have to be scattered among too large a number of nominees. This applies especially to the committee's, which, though esteemed minor honors, are very great in importance. Usually there are not more than four men for each committee who deserve to be elected. But if eight or more nominations are made for each committee, and a number of Seniors...
...number of original drawings by masters of the old English water-color school are now on view at the Fogg Museum. The artists represented are: Samuel Prout, David Cox, Peter DeWint, Henry Edridge, Thomas Girtin, Paul Sanby and John Varley. These are all characteristic examples, and serve to show what were the artistic ideals, and the technical methods, which prevailed in the English School of the early part of the century now closing. While more or less conventional in both conception and treatment, these works are generally well composed and exhibit the skill in the use of pure water-color...
Another important contribution to the number is "A Prelude in Purgatory," a poem of some length by W. V. Moody '92. To criticise a single poem fairly or well is almost impossible. But, in the present case, it is possible to remind the College that much of the best verse which has appeared in the Monthly has been contributed by Mr. Moody both before he graduated and since. According to the memory of the present reviewer, the "Prelude in Purgatory" deserves as much praise as any of these...
Some verses by W. C. Arensberg '00, and two editorials, one on the giving up of the society slate in senior elections, the other on the football season, and some interesting book reviews complete the number...
...first number of a new annual college publication, the "Yale University Calendar," will be issued that month. It will contain fifty-three half-tone illustrations, including pictures of all the university buildings, society houses, athletic teams and their captain...