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Townsend of Columbia and Thacher of Harvard showed the most proficiency with the foils, and their bout was the best of the evening. The Harvard man had apparently saved himself for this bout. Both were wary and cool, Thacher appearing fresher than the Columbia representative. Thacher's thrusts were well...
During the Mohammedan government at Bagdad, science made great headway. The Arabians were essentially a scientific people. They invented a new branch of mathematics, algebra, and were skilful in chemistry and astronomy. Constantinople became the greatest seat of learning in the world. With the fall of the Turkish Empire came...
Mr. Baker said that the Elizabethan period was distinctly a dramatic epoch. At school boys were obliged to study Latin plays, and sometimes used to act in them. At the university great interest was taken in dramatic art; and when the Queen visited Oxford or Cambridge, she bestowed a prize...
Activity in athletics will soon begin again, and of all the seasons in the year there is none in which fewer objections can be raised to the relative amount of time which is given to athletics and studies. On this point we are forced to disagree with Mr. Caspar Whitney...
The playing of the Pennsylvania team undoubtedly entitles them to the distinction of being the strongest eleven in the country. Their score was earned by good football playing and there was no slugging or brutal play of any sort to stain the victory. Pennsylvania's interference was very well developed...