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...botanists, given by Mrs. Asa Gray. This is the most valuable collection of its kind in the United States, and is surpassed by none but that in the British Museum. It contains about eleven thousand autographs and in many cases the photographs or engravings of the botanists. The oldest autograph is that of Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist born in 1516. The date of the autograph is 1563. Among other names contained are those of Linnaeus, 1749, a great Swedish naturalist and the founder of the present methods of botanical classification, Joseph Tournefort and Augustus P. de Candolle, both famous...
...merely because the educational addresses and papers are reserved for another volume. There are, however, in this volume a good many passages relating to education, and one entire essay discusses the question "wherein popular education has failed." What is striking about the book, coming from the President of the oldest American university, is that his field of speculation and interest is so much larger than the mere field of education. Fifty years ago such a book would have been a narrow if not sectarian performance; today the essayist is no mere educator, but a man of the world, an administrator...
This year the Pierian enters upon the ninetieth year of its existence. It is the oldest musical organization in America and the most successful of college orchestras. The prospects for the coming season are very bright, the Sodality already having several concerts in view. Terhune, who so successfully led the orchestra last year, will continue his leadership this year. Financially the outlook is not all that could be desired...
Professor Allen was widely known as an editor of the classics and as the author of a work on Greek versification. He was also one of the oldest members in point of service of the Harvard...
...rather opposed to the Tree exercises in any form, and has only allowed them to be held about the old tree again on condition that the objectionable features of the scrimmage be wholly done away with. Thus it is perfectly clear that the future of one of Harvard's oldest and dearest traditions depends on the conduct of the Seniors at the Tree exercises next Thursday. If the wishes of the Corporation are observed as regards the forming of combinations of men in the scrimmage and the wearing of objectionable clothes, the exercises can doubtless be kept up in future...