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People point to the Phi Beta Kappa as an incentive to high scholarship. It would be much more of an incentive if it were better known by the students. The stirring spectacle of the annual meeting of the graduate members of the society in Sanders Theatre, that splendid gathering of what is most learned and most revered in old Harvard, a sight which is in itself enough to fire 'many a young man with ambitions of scholarship, comes unfortunately at a time when there are very few undergraduates in Cambridge to see it and have their ambitions aroused. In this...
...famous "Bella," by Titian, engraved from the original by T. Cole, furnishes the frontispiece of this number of The Century, and calls attention anew to the fact that the Cole pictures are now at their most interesting point, having reached the most splendid period of Italian art. American art is interestingly represented by a full-page engraving of Brush's "Killing the Moose...
...there should be held in London an "English Festival," which should consist of contests in track events, cricket and rowing. These contests were at first to be open merely to the English colonists but it is now proposed to admit America. The action is taken in view of the splendid showing that our athletes made abroad last summer and also of our games against Lord Hawk's team of cricketers. Owing to this last proposal Mr. J. Astley Cooper, who is one of the originators of the scheme, has written a letter to the Harvard Boat Club, from which...
...closes the hare and bounds, season today with a cross-country run for the championship of the University. The success of the hare and hounds runs this year has certainly been remarkable. It is due partly, no doubt, to the splendid open weather which we have had all fall; but it is due most to the live interest which most of the good distance runners have taken in the runs. The H. A. A. is certainly to be congratulated upon this success, for it promises for the future. The results of this fall's work will certainly be apparent before...
...Events," makes the following literary criticism of the daily papers of Harvard and Cornell: "These are purely newspapers; they make no pretense of giving anything of a literary character, but content themselves with reporting the college news. The editorials are fresh and crisp, and the whole papers give a splendid evidence of the enterprise and get-up-and-get of the students of these big schools...