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...Peabody Museum has received a very extensive collection from L. H. Farlow. This collection contains various specimens of the work of the American Indians, including bows, arrows, baskets, and an old drum, which was recovered from a lake in California. A very rare and singular coat of armor, such as was used by the primitive Hupa Indians, and beautiful head bands of red feathers are worthy of note. Dr. H. Rice '98 has presented various ornaments and weapons collected from the Zaporo Indians of Peru. Dr. J. C. Jones has donated a collection of New Guinea weapons and implements from...
This pulpit, which is one of the finest monuments of mediaevel scupture, is an imposing and massive structure, some fifteen feet high, resting on Romanesque columns and richly adorned with high reliefs of singular power and beauty. Together with the colossal Crucifixion group from the Rood Screen of the same church and the monumental bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, which the Germanic Museum has just acquired, this gift of the King of Saxony is a highly important illustration of the remarkable state of perfection reached by German sculpture at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth...
...Privatdozent at the University of Marburg, and in 1901 he was made Professor Extraordinarius. In 1903 he was called to Bonn, and in the same year he was charged by the Prussian Government with organizing the newly founded Royal Academy at Posen, a task which he fulfilled with singular success. In the autumn of 1905, he was sent by his government on a lecturing tour through the United States, during which he spoke to audiences in most of the important cities and universities...
...which the old monarchical government inflicted the death penalty. The invention of the guillotine, which in some analogous form had already been used in Germany and in Scotland, happened to coincide with the outbreak of the Revolution, and was not a consequence of that movement. But it was certainly singular that the invention should have taken place at that particular time, since it enabled executions to be conducted with a rapidity and a certainty which would have been impossible with the means formerly at the disposal...
...view of recent editorials on the subject of Commencement changes, permit me to call attention to a singular error made in a communication on the subject and overlooked in the editorials in question. The communication referred to found two objections to the plan suggested by the Committee of Alumni. The more important of these was based on the fact that the Committee's plan provided for a baseball game with Yale on the Tuesday prior to Commencement, and on that day, Commencement Day at Yale, our ball team was expected to play at New Haven. As a matter of fact...