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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professor Ernest M. Pease of Bowdoin. To secure permanent editions of uniform merit, the work has been distributed among a large number of special editors, whose names are among the most celebrated Latin scholars in our American colleges. This series will be made up of the Latin authors usually read in colleges, and will include, for the use of advanced scholars portions of those authors which have been omitted in former editions. Each edition will contain an essay on the special characteristics of the author's style, followed by a full commentary and index. Among the numbers now in process...
...Ottfield Muller went to the site of Delphi and his work showed the opportunity for discovery and research among the ruins. Twenty years later another attempt at discovery was made by the French. America had no hand in the work until some eleven years ago Gen. Meredith Read, the United States Minister to Greece, interested himself in the matter. He was soon recalled from Athens, however, and it was not until two years ago that Americans became actively engaged in the matter. Then the prominence into which the American School of Athens brought all objects of Greek antiquity stirred Americans...
College men will read with interest Richard M. Hurd's article on "Athletics at Yale University" in Outing for February. Full-page illustrations of the various teams, together with running, hurdling, and pole-vaulting scenes, add materially to the value of the article...
...description of the ruins will be commenced in the second lecture on Monday, Feb. 18, and will run through the whole course of lectures, eight in number. At the lectures parts of Pausanias will be read and his description constantly referred to. The lectures will be given Monday and Friday afternoons from Friday, February 15th to March 11th, the date of the last lecture, in the Jefferson Physical laboratory at 4 o'clock...
...ensuing year took place. D. C. Torrey, '90, was elected president; H. McK. Landon, '92, secretary; S. Van Rensselaer, '91, treasurer; P. H. Roots, '91, librarian. S. A. Davis, A. M. Day, and F. F. Howe, all from '92, were elected to membership. A paper was then read inviting the members of the association to attend the conference of the Y. M. C. A's. of the New England colleges, to be held in Worcester, on the 15th, 16th and 17th of next April. The meeting then adjourned...