Word: sketch
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Colonel Henry Stone was the lecturer on the above subject in the historical course last evening. The audience which had gathered in Sanders was well repaid by the lecture, which was the most graphic and life-like of the whole Civil War series. The lecturer opened with a brief sketch of the commanders of the opposing armies which fought in the campaign he described, Gen. Thomas the Federal commander, and Gen. Hood of the Confederates. The outcome of this campaign, which lasted from October to the end of December, 1864, was of the greatest importance, for Sherman had cut loose...
...chapters; and Henry James contributed another of his French travel papers, this time describing Avignon and Orange. Prof. Shaler discusses "The Red Sunsets" and their probable cause. Oliver T. Morton, son of the late Senator Morton of Indiana, writes about "Presidential Nominations;" Maria Louise Henry contributes a sketch of Madame de Longueville. Bradford Torrey has an interesting bird article, entitled "Phillida and Coridon;" while the Contributors' Club has some delightful extracts from a "Rhymed Letter" by James Russell Lowell, not included in his volumes...
...current number of the Bay State Monthly contains an article on "Early Harvard," and a short sketch of the life of Col. Fletcher Webster, the son of Daniel Webster, who graduated from Harvard in the class...
...exists so much uncertainty as regards the value of these lives and the use that is made of them, that a few words of explanation may not be unacceptable. It is the intention of the class secretaries in requesting every member of the class to write a short autobiographical sketch to obtain items of interest in the pre-collegiate and college life of each member, not easily ascertained by any other method. When the class lives are all handed in, they will be bound and kept in some accessible place, open to the inspection of the class only. The importance...
Yesterday's Herald contained an interesting sketch of the Harvard Bicycle Club...