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...William H. Baldwin Prize of $100 offered by the National Municipal League has been awarded for 1907-08 to Abraham Edward Pinanski 1L., for an essay on "The Street Railway System of Metropolitan Boston." This prize is offered annually for the best essay on a subject in municipal administration written by a student of any "college or university of the United States which affords distinct instruction in municipal government...
...Animal Life to Human Diseases." Next Saturday at 8 o'clock Dr. C. Harrigan '84 will lecture on "The Cocaine Evil"; and the last lecture of the series will be given by Dr. W. T. Councilman '99, on Sunday afternoon, April 26, at 4 o'clock on the subject of "Tumors...
Professor A. O. Norton '98 will give the second of a series of four illustrated lectures on "Mediaeval and Early Modern Education" in the lecture room on the first floor of Robinson Hall at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. The subject of today's lecture is "Some Aspects of Mediaeval Student Life." It will be illustrated by lantern slides from rare wood-cuts and other sources and interspersed by readings from contemporary documents. The subjects and dates of the two remaining lectures are: April 27--"The Italian Revival of Learning: Its Influence upon Education"; May 4--"Humanism in the German...
Swimming, for its vigorous exercise and purity, should be favored by the Faculty, because the contestants, as in tennis and rowing, are not subject to the temptation offered for dirty work. But the proposed plan of those in power is to cut out even this team, which, moreover, has only four contests a year, necessitating two absences only, from Cambridge. Surely the time taken away from studies to prepare for these contests, especially when practice is very light, because of the lack of a pool, can hardly be said to injure a swimmer's standing in the University. PAUL WITHINGTON...
...James Ford Rhodes, LL.D., h.'01, will deliver a lecture on Edwin Lawrence Godkin in Emerson D at 8 o'clock this evening. The subject is of particular significance because of the resumption of the Godkin lectures this year in the appointment of President Eilot as incumbent of the lectureship. Godkin was for many years editor of the "Nation" and the "New York Evening Post" and was at one time offered a professorship at Harvard which his duties compelled him to decline...