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...board of graduate students from different Universities has recently been issued. C. A. Duniway of the Harvard Graduate School is the editor-in-chief. The handbook contains, besides that grouping of graduate courses in the principal schools of the country under the various departments of instruction, which was its prime object, a brief account of the convention of graduate clubs held in New York last April with the address then drawn up to the governing boards of American Universities. There are also a list of the graduate clubs affiliated and introductory accounts of the colleges and universities whose courses...
Everybody in Boston knows George W. Wilson, that inimitable comedian who for sixteen years was a prime favorite in the old Museum stock company, and it seems as if everybody and their cousins were out to see him appear once more on the stage where he has made so many successes in the past. Little need be said about the play. It is sufficient to recall the fact that it is one of those bright, farce comedies, of the same class as "Charley's Aunt" and "The Private Secretary," which are put together for laughing purposes only. With one exception...
After a lapse of about two thousand years the Olympic games are to be renewed, in the interest of international amateur sport. The prime mover in this revival is a young Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Conbertin, who is well-known both in his own country and in America, as an enthusiast in athletic sports. He brought about the international athletic convention in Paris last June, the result of which was an arrangement whereby quadrennial meetings will be held, beginning next year in Athens. Besides all modern athletic contests an effort will be made to revive some of the old Greek...
LECTURES ON LITERATURE.During the year 1894-95 Mr. Copeland will give a number of evening lectures upon literature, of which the prime object will be to stimulate interest in good reading, and particularly to encourage discussion of such matters of literary consequence as may from time to time present themselves. A second object is to suggest lines of reading to students in the University who may desire some knowledge of English Literature without the minute study demanded by the regular courses of instruction. The following subjects and dates are already announced...
LECTURES ON LITERATURE.During the year 1894-95 Mr. Copeland will give a number of evening lectures upon literature, of which the prime object will be to stimulate interest in good reading, and particularly to encourage discussion of such matters of literary consequence as may from time to time present themselves. A second object is to suggest lines of reading to students in the University who may desire some knowledge of English Literature without the minute study demanded by the regular courses of instruction. The following subjects and dates are already announced...