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...bought from Library funds, but was all selected by Mr. Gay in Rome. Another shipment is on the way from him and will contain about a thousand items, partly on this same subject and partly of a miscellaneous character. Most of these were bought by Mr. Gay at the recent sale of the library of Count Crispi, in Rome...
...crew leaves for its quarters on the Thames today with a better record than any Harvard crew in recent years. A close win from the Navy, over a strange course, and an overwhelming victory from Cornell are indications of excellence in the early period of training that are encouraging. The men have rowed in the same order since the middle of March and they are showing the effects of it in the splendid way they row together...
...recent formation of a Student Council, the avowed purpose of which is to co-operate with the Faculty in raising the general intellectual standard at Harvard, seems to create an opportunity for renewing a suggestion which has been made a great many times in the past, but upon which no real action has ever been taken. This suggestion is that the student body should take some action which would show an appreciation of high scholarship resembling that which is shown for conspicuous success in athletics. One plan has been to award to men of high scholarship the privilege of wearing...
...long since been proved to be absolutely useless. To obtain better machinery in municipal government, then, is an object to be desired. This end would be furthered by an increase in state supervision over and in popular control of our city governments. State supervision has enormously increased in recent years, practically all the taxing powers of the city having been taken away, and lodged in the hands of the state legislature. This tendency is to be encouraged, since the interests of cities are now so far-reaching that they can be protected only by the state, as those...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Recent Experiments on the Direction of Sound," Professor Sabine. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...