Word: summer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Frederick Moore's sketch "Adam and Eva, deserves first mention. It is a study of local color and character so truthful in substance and treatment that one is uncertain whether it is rightly classed under the head of fiction. The material is of the slightest; on a hot summer night a student involuntarily in Cambridge, amuses himself on the steps of his dormitory by engaging in conversation three little street waifs that chance by. The atmosphere is admirably reproduced by a few telling lines and the children are treated with something of that realism and sympathetic humor which one remembers...
Harvard is certainly to be congratulated upon the prospect of an international track meet to be held in the Stadium this summer. Although comparatively few Harvard men will be in Cambridge to witness the games, it is very flattering to know that Harvard is growing to be the centre for intercollegiate track athletics. It is difficult to say whether the increased interest in track athletics is the cause or the effect of this centering tendency which has brought the Intercollegiate Meet to Cambridge again this year. Certain it is, however, that the additional stimulus which large meets give will...
...eight-oared shell, with a complete set of oars, was recently ordered from Sims & Sons, of Putney. London, England. The boat will be delivered early next summer, and will be built according to the English model and English rowing theories. It will have short outriggers, rowlocks without swivels, and seats arranged alternately on the port and starboard sides of the boat. The seat at each place will be near the side opposite the outrigger...
...committee are made up as follows: executive committee--J. J. Rowe '07, president; G. Lunt, New York University, secretary; G. Estee, Columbia, treasurer; C. Summer, Yale; A. B. Walsh, Princeton; F. C. Chapman, Cornell; S. E. Martin, Pennsylvania; advisory committee--T. Gerrish '01, C. T. Kirby, Columbia...
...subjects given are much similar to those given at the University Summer School but they are more comprehensive. Special rates will be given this year to all students who go to attend the meeting of the National Educational Association, which extends from July 8 to 12, the round trip being the full fare west, and $2 for the return. A catalogue will be published this month and may be obtained from the University of California...