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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Street endowed the new school with $81,500 and other gifts. The galleries now contain, besides the Trumbull collection, "The Jarves Collection of Italian Art," consisting of 122 pictures of great historic interest as illustrating the rise of Christian art in Western Europe from the 11th to the 17th centuries; a collection of contemporaneous art, numbering 100 paintings, a collection of 150 casts and marbles, representative of the various periods of Greek and Renaissance Art; a collection of old Dutch and Flemish paintings; a valuable collection of Chinesse porcelains nad bronzes, and a series of very fine and rare Belgian...
...unparalleled race which Yale, with seven men, rowed last Saturday against the Atalanta crew, has again given rise to a spirit here at Harvard against which we protest. There is no reason whatever as yet for Harvard to feel anxious about the annual race, and there is no reason why certain men about college, noted for grumbling, should declare that Yale even now has practically won. This is not the spirit which makes a crew or a nine work, and which wins victories. Harvard men are altogether too willing to admit that they are beaten. Nearly everyone had given...
...give personal characterizations of some of the most noteworthy modern thinkers; to suggest something of the nature of their attitudes towards the great issues of humanity and to illustrate spiritual problems of our day. The subjects are "Spinoza to Kant," "Fichte," "The Romantic Movement in Philosophy," "Hegel," "Schopenhawer," "The rise of the Philosophy of Evolution," "Idealism as a Tendency in Philosophy," "Fate, Law and Freedom," and "Optimism, Pessimism and the Moral Order." The lectures began Saturday and will be given at the houses of Mrs. W. T. Blodgett, Mrs. Charles F. Chandler, Mrs. Henry Draper, Mr. Dunham, Mrs. Henry Holt...
...ideas are sound and practical. The article of this issue relating most directly to college affairs is "Athletics at Cornell." The writer is evidently a partisan of Cornell for he favors her at every point, but nevertheless he gives us a very clear idea of the origin and rise of athletics at this university; he would have done well to offer some prediction as to the position in athletics which Cornell will hold in the future for it can hardly fail to be a prominent one. "Prospects of the Yachting Season" and "Creedmoor and the National Guard" are interesting...
...officers have taken this opportunity to explain how the club is run. Under the new management the club seems to be showing more activity than before and a determination to improve We hope it will reform some existing deficiencies, and as the concert of last Friday seems to promise, rise to the highest level it has ever attained...