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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...today, the first half being devoted to defensive work against Harvard formations used by the scrub eleven, and the second half to offensive play. It took the Varsity a long time to diagnose some of the Harvard plays, but after they had warmed up to it, scrub gains were rare. The scrubs did not score but the Varsity made two touchdowns. Special time was given to catching punts against the sun as it will have to be done in the Stadium, Law, Tibbott and Dickerman practised drop-kicks. Law was decidedly off form but the others performed creditably. Some time...
...upper corridor of the Fogg Art Museum is placed on temporary exhibition a painting in fresco of the Virgin of the Annunciation, probably the earliest known work of the Florentine painter Ghirlandaio. Examples of fresco are very rare in this country, and this work is very important in showing the quality of the wall painting of the great Florentine masters...
Wherever Haughton or his men set their foot, there will be punting. And there will be punting until the rules are changed, for with rare exception, in matches of the first importance, the running game will not decide the issue. The theory of the punting game takes little account of the early encounters with teams so weak that they may be beaten without it. It is concerned with only one thing--the game one must...
...first floor is to contain the Widener collection and other rare books, the offices of the library, and stacks. On the second floor is the great main reading room which is larger than Bates Hall in the Boston Public Library, and which offers seats for 375 students. The third floor will furnish space for a book-bindery, photograph room, and the various departmental collections, and also a number of small rooms for seminars, advanced courses, and private study. The total capacity of the library will be 2,500,000 volumes, about the same as the New York Public Library, while...
...aquisition of the Peirce Collection by the Harvard Commission on Western History brings to the University exceedingly rare and valuable sources of information on the history of the Mormon people and their part in the movement of the colonization of the West. The significance of the anonymous donor's gift can be better appreciated when it is realized that whether the student is inquiring into the history of the remarkable development of an extensive region of our western country or is interested in the history of a religion which formed and developed within the lifetime of men living, this Library...