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...means advanced. We can see how it was with Harvard from the change of curriculum effected in 1787. Up to that time the Latin and Greek provided had consisted of Virgil Cicero's Orations and the Greek Testament. By the changes made in 1787 the students were to read in Latin, Horace, Sallust and Cicero "de Oratore;" and in Greek, Xenophon and Homer. Even this was not a more advanced curriculum than that of the best preparatory schools of the present time. The study of mathematics was probably not carried much beyond geometry. Harvard, then, had 300 students and Princeton...
...Fifth Avenue Hotel. No especially important changes were made in the rules or constitution with the exception of one clause which was so changed that it will be impossible in the future for such complications to arise as came up last fall between Harvard and Yale. The article which reads "The two leading teams shall play in or near New York on Thanksgiving Day," was amended to read that: "when one of the teams is Harvard they shall play on grounds mutually agreed upon...
Every Harvard man will read with the greatest satisfaction what Rev. F. B. Vrooman has to say concerning the religious life here at Harvard. We feel that he understands the real position of religion in the life here. We do not claim for the University any extraordinary development in spirituality. But, as Mr. Vrooman says, "there is here unusual vigor of religious life;" the religion of the college is, unquestionably, thoroughly healthy and reverential, and of great depth. The scoffer is an unknown quantity, for unbelievers find nothing to attack because they find no one creed upheld and championed...
...Wheeler said that we unfortunately know very little about the chryselephantine statues. He read Pausanias' account of the statue of Athena Parthenos, a description that is a little more satisfactory than the most of that author's work. The statue was a composite work of gold and ivory. It was about forty feet in height, and between forty and fifty talents of gold were used in its construction. The technique of the statue is not clearly understood. The best representation which has come down to us is a statuette about a meter high, which was discovered in Athens near...
FORENSICS.Mr. Conant will meet seniors Thursday, March 7, in Sever 11, at 4 p. m. to read and discuss specimen forensics...