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...courses are offered in Jurisprudence, American History, History of Europe from 1400 to 1648, Analytical Study of the French Contemporary Poets, and Middle High German. In the study of English Literature are the most striking advances. The number of courses in this department has been increased from four to thirteen, all of them being open to both classes; the list embraces all phases of the subject, from mediaeval literature down to that of the nineteenth century. The courses in Natural History and Mathematics are changed only so far as making Astronomy an elective course in the junior year necessitates...
There never was a time, and never will be, when Memorial board,-cooked by wholesale, and served by negro waiters to tables each averaging thirteen men,-will be appetizing; especially when all the thirteen are apt to come in together, expecting to be served at once, and to allow, on an average, less than half an hour to a meal. But I believe that the board is better now than ever before. The price has averaged only $4.04 per week. Very little of the food has been unfit to eat. There has been a good deal of variety...
...theatre consists of three main parts: the auditorium, the orchestra, and the stage buildings. The seats for the spectators covered the slope of the hill, in semicircular rows. Aisles divided the auditorium into thirteen wedges and two-thirds of the distance to the top was a semi-circular passageway or "Diazoma." The upper rows of seats were hewn from the stone of the hillside, the lower were of limestone from the Peiraeus. The front row consisted of sixty-seven "thronoi," heavy stone seats with backs, the middle one being used by the chief priest of Dionysus. The orchestra...
Eight men tried to climb the rope, thirty-five feet long. P. Manchester, B. A. A., used fifteen seconds. H. Williams, B A A, thirteen and a fifth seconds. H. H. Young, M I T, missed his grip twice and used up nineteen and a half seconds. I. J. Crane, M I T, was slow, and used his legs. J. Crane, '90, J. W. Ganson, '92, G. F. Cavanaugh, Sp., and G. B. Viles. '92, followed. Williams won the event and beat the best Harvard record by one and a fifth seconds. Manchester won second...
...candidates for the crew met Wednesday evening at 14 Wadsworth to accept Mr. Herrick's resignation and elect a successor. At the first formal ballot thirteen votes were cast every one for Mr. J. P. Hutchinson, '90. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Hutchinson decided to accept the position...