Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have but little more than a week of lectures before the end of the term, and then after a short period of examinations the College year will be over. The questions which have been discussed during the term have been in a few instances favorably decided, but many of the live issues raised have been allowed practically to die out. What looked like a successful movement in the direction of a new Gymnasium has apparently entirely dropped from the attention of the undergraduates. We do not know whether the Corporation is considering the problem; we only hope that...
There still remains, however, ample time for the settlement of two athletic questions of considerable importance. A good many weeks ago there was considerable discussion of the two-period rule, and steps were taken to bring the subject of its abolition to the attention of the Athletic Committee. We have not heard whether it is being held under consideration at the present time, but as very few meetings of the Committee remain before the end of the term, we risk the criticism of over-persistence by again urging the Committee to abolish this unfair regulation before the year is over...
...Francis Bacon systematically embodied in the poems the sonnets and all of the plays usually attributed to William Shakespeare, and elsewhere. He foresees that the acceptance of Mr. Booth's discoveries by, the mathematician and historian will lead to the rewriting of the history of English literature of the period shortly before and after 1600, and to the destruction of the modern Shakespeare myth. Let us hope that we are now to have a fair and dispassionate study and presentation of the Shakespeare-Bacon problem by the English departments of our colleges...
...undertaken in the University and expressed the wish that at his departure we could again say as we said two years ago: "Auf wiedersehen." Professor Muensterberg next spoke of the change that had occurred in German literature and of the new spirit that had arisen. In the period of the greatness of German literature and art, the country was cosmopolitan because national strength was lacking. This disappeared under the influence of the political unity effected in the middle of the last century. There is now a sentiment of international patriotism, under which Professor Kuehnemann first reached America...
...Mullenix for an essay on "The Neurone Theory: Its Development and its Present Suits"; and one to E. A. Hecker for an essay on "The Progress of Humanitarianism in the first three centuries after Christ, as exhibited in the extant Greek and Latin Authors of that Period." First undergraduate prize of $250 to K. Costikyan '09 for an essay on "Cardinal Newman's Religion." Second undergraduate prize of $100 to P. Mariett '11 for an essay on "Skiamachia: A Study in Character" and one of $100 to be divided between S. F. Kimball '09 for an essay on "Franklin Park...