Word: summer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Little Clay Cart," an ancient Sanskrit drama, which he has been engaged in translating. Dr. Ryder will summarize the parts, which for lack of time he will be unable to read, and will attempt to show the style of the drama. The lecture has previously been given at the Summer School...
...University Debating Club will meet this evening to decide upon plans for the ensuing year. During the summer circular letters have been addressed to all the ex-University debaters, soliciting suggestions as to how the present system may be improved upon and this branch of College activity put on a more generally desirable footing. Some of the suggestions thus received have involved radical departures from the present organization, as, for instance: the abolition of the three upper class clubs; changing the University Debating Club from its present status as a merely administrative body to an actual debating club; the transference...
...library of the Union has been given, during the summer and early fall, three gifts of especial value. Mr. H. C. Force '01, has presented a set of the "Great Commanders" series, including lives of Jackson, Thomas, Hancock, Greene, Johnston, Washington, Sheridan, Scott, Sherman, Taylor, Farragut, Grant and Lee. From Mr. John B. Gerrish '71, of New York, the library has received an edition of Colley Cibber's Works, in 5 volumes, published in 1736, a very handsome edition of George Meredith, in 32 volumes, and a superb edition of Fielding, printed in 11 volumes and bound in tree calf...
...University team, consisting of six men and a substitute, will be chosen in a few days. The selection will be made on the basis of the work done during the summer as well as by match play before the tournament...
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...