Word: specimens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the summer the only important changes at the University Museum have been made in the African room on the third floor. Here an unusually fine specimen of a giraffe, standing nearly seventeen feet in height, has been set up. For several years the Museum has been trying to acquire such a specimen. The animal was killed in the summer of 1902 in East Africa...
...important acquisition has been made recently by the Peabody Museum of a collection of Mexican antiques, which have been taken from excavations at Zumpango and Tecomaxochill. The collection consists of Crania, pottery, stone implements, soap stone vessels and small human effigies, one of which is a remarkably fine specimen. There are also beads of gadeite and shell, stone pendants and car ornaments, and rude figures of stone, fashioned from discarded axes...
...deals with a theme of which much has been heard. Perhaps one cannot hear too much; at any rate the present picture is no disgrace to its kindred. The number is strongest, however, in the minor contents, which are almost without exception good. Probably the best are the specimen lecture and the Faculty love letter...
...editorial on the "Bloody Monday" question in the current number will enlist the majority of undergraduates on its side; it presents the arguments in favor of the rush with keen clearness and force. A "Specimen Lecture--English 8," and "Heart to Heart Talks with Freshmen" are the best of the other prose articles in the number. The full page drawing by Welldon is remarkably well drawn; none of the other drawings are noteworthy...
Silver, Burdett & Company are soon to publish a book by Mr. C. T. Copeland and H. M. Rideout '99, called "Freshman English and Theme Correcting in Harvard College." It is not to be a text book, but an aid to teachers, and for this purpose it will contain specimen themes by students, with the instructor's corrections. The book is expected to be especially valuable as an exposition of the work done in English...