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...made the annual challenge prize for the winners of the spring class races. The cup is a large silver goblet covered with the names of the first nine winning crews, from 1866 to 1874 inclusive. In the three years following the names were inscribed on a parchment, but after 1877 the cup disappeared and for 20 years was not raced for. In 1897 F. R. Appleton '75, stroke on the University crew of that year, discovered the Cup in the Bursar's office. At his suggestion a large octagonal silver platter was provided by subscriptions. On it the names...
...Semitic Museum has recently acquired a collection of about 125 Syriac manuscripts. Although some are modern copies on paper, others are old manuscripts on parchment and vellum. These manuscripts go back to the twelfth century and even to the Bible. The collection was made by Professor J. Rendel Harris of England, one of the foremost scholars in Syriac studies...
...native power is now allowed to receive the degree, and that for a college to appoint instructors only with such qualifications is snobbery and sham, seem hardly consistent. Nevertheless the main point of the article--an appeal to value more the individuality of a man and his abilities than parchment he may possess--appeals to anyone's sentiment and sense--and is advanced with straightforward convincing earnestness...
...State Senate yesterday concurred in the amendment recently added by the House of Representatives to the bill on the franchise for electing Harvard Overseers. The bill will now be engrossed on parchment and will be brought before the House and Senate for enactment. It will then be taken to the Governor for his signature...
President Eliot responded to President Hadley's welcome with the following congratulatory address, a copy of which, engrossed on parchment and with the Harvard seal appended in the ancient fashion, he formally presented...