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...valuable addition has lately been made to the Gore Hall Library by the gift of a large portion of the private library of the late John Elbridge Hudson '62. Mr. Hudson was for several years a tutor in the College and was a close and constant students of the classics. During his tutorship he studied in the Law School and after graduating he practised law in Boston...
Some time ago it was suggested at a meeting of the Classical Club that an attempt should be made to present a portion of Greek comedy. It has now been decided to make the attempt, and arrangements are in progress for the production of the last two acts of Aristophane's "Birds." The play will be given before the club next March probably in Harvard Hall. Music has been composed especially for this performance by Professor J. K. Paine, and has been pronounced most successful. A chorus, selected chiefly form the members of the College choir and the Glee Club...
...Palacobotany in this country. Tweleve geologic llorizons are represented, the largest number of specimens being of the Carboniferous. Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. This latter gorup is chiefly made up of types from the collection of Heer, the eminent Swss pa aeontologist. Other specimens have been purchased with a portion of the Lee fund, among them a sereis of forty six choice slides of carboniferous plants, for microscopic study, prepared by Mr. Lomax, of Bolton, England. A few specimens were received from the Boston Museum. the acquistions of the past include a valuable series of fossils discovered in the Roxbury conglomerate...
...Quincy A. Shaw (for instruction in kindergarten work for Cuban teachers), 500.00Anonymous (to complete telescope), 691.36Charles Peabody (special fund for Music 7), 40.00Frederick S. Converse (special fund for Music 7), 20.00A. C. Coolidge (for purchase of books), 59.65John Harvey Trent (for expense of the Portion of Riant Library devoted to theology and hagiography), 800.00Alexander Agassiz (for changes and improvements at the new boat house), 6,145.00J. K. Paine (for purchase of books and expenses of chamber Concerts), 17.97Theobald Smith. (for research in Laboratory of Comparative Pathology), 25.00Mr. Alexander Agassiz...
...Rand considers Shaftesbury the greatest of modern stoies and his philosophy as the strongest expression of stoicism since the days of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. The letters contained in the volume throw much light on Shaftesbury's character and are all in Shaftesburys' best style. It is this portion of the book that is most helpful to the ordinary reader, for it enables him to understand better a great philanthropist, a sound thinker, and a deep student of human and ethical problems...