Word: periodicals
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Polybius, Professor Bury said, appeals most strongly to men interested in political science, for he is the one historian who realized the importance and influence of the political institutions of a country. He takes for the starting point in his history the period of the three great wars, namely--Rome and Carthage, the Leagues in Greece, and Antiochus and Ptolemy. His forty books, of which five are completely extant, are the first books of universal, connected history, treated in a chronological order. As Thucydides was an artist, so was Polybius a teacher. The historical value of the writings of Polybius...
...dinner hour to determine whether the Harvard Dining Association shall retain the new system or revert to the old. The last report of the Dining Association seems to prove conclusively the success of the present plan, since the average board is about 40 cents lower than at a corresponding period of last year, and the enrolled membership 251 greater than at the first of March, when the new scheme was adopted...
...official report of the Harvard Dining Association for the period from March 1 to March 21 shows the cost of general board under the new system to be $4.10, the average cost of extras 86 cents, and the average total cost of board $4.96. These figures show an advance of 10 cents over the cost of general board which was guaranteed by the Corporation for the month of March, but the average total cost of board falls below $5 which is very reasonable. The average total cost of board for March 1907 was $5.38, as compared with...
...also his performance in the 50 and 220-yard swims. The water polo team lost both games; it was overwhelmed by Columbia by the score of 7 to 0, and defeated by the C. C. N. Y. team, 2 to 1, in a close game requiring an extra period to decide it. The relay team won both its races handily...
...lockers and a shower room. This gave accommodations for 2,500 students and increased the floor-space to 15,000 square feet. Within two years after this the concrete squash courts in the rear were added. Since then, although the following ten years constituted Harvard's most rapid period of expansion, nothing has been materially done to keep up with our gymnastic needs...