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Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41 spoke in the Common Room of Conant Hall last evening under the auspices of the Graduates Club on "Reminiscences of Literary Men," Colonel Higginson talked mainly of literary men he had met in his youth, and told numerous anecdotes about James. Russell Lowell '38, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21 and Oliver Wendell Holmes '61. Mr. Higginson and Mr. Lowell became fast friends when children. They were in the habit of going to various lectures together, and while at one of these Mr. Higginson became acquainted with Emerson...
...first lecture, Mr. Murray spoke on the Aegean kingdoms, the destructive effects of the northern immigrations, on the security of Aegean commerce, and the religion of the Greek Polis. His second lecture was on the breaking up of institutions, such as agricultural sanctions and tribes, under the stress of the migrations, and on the meanings of "Aidos" and "Nemesis" in Greek life and literature...
...Morse '07, who spoke on the "Senior Board," pointed out that some of the most helpful suggestions this year had come from graduate editors, and expressed the desire that graduates should take an even more active interest. He described the two new boards, which had been established during the past year: the Graduate Advisory Board and the Editorial Board, which assists the president in his work...
...advocates of peace in England, having been a delegate to the Hague Peace Conference, and a firm disbeliever in the English-Boer war. He was also among the most prominent delegates at the recent National Peace and Arbitration Conference, held in New York City, last week. While there he spoke before the Society for Ethical Culture on "Peace Movement," and delivered addresses before the peace meetings in the Broadway Tabernacle, the Labor Meeting at the Cooper Union, and the Children's Meeting in Carnegle Hall...
President and Mrs. Charles W. Eliot arrived in New York yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock on the Bermudian, of the Quebec Steamship line. President Eliot attended a dinner at the Long Island Harvard Club in Brooklyn last night, where he spoke. He will remain in New York during the early part of the next week, attending the International Peace Conference, where he will speak on Tuesday afternoon and on Wednesday evening at the great public dinner. He will probably arrive in Cambridge on Thursday or Friday...