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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There is now on exhibition at the Fogg Museum a collection of Arretine Moulds, with fragments of the ware and casts from them. Arretine ware is a rather uncommon variety of ancient pottery and this collection is unusually interesting as there are practically no more specimens obtainable. The collection is deposited by Mr. James Loeb...
...There are more men who rely upon handball for their daily exercise than the number of candidates for either the track team or baseball nine. But although the number of men playing handball has greatly increased, the facilities for playing the game have remained stationary. It is not an uncommon sight to see a number of men waiting impatiently for the chance to play; and many of them who are unable to secure courts are daily forced to get their exercise in the Gymnasium instead of outdoors. Now, it is not possible, with a little outlay, to use the other...
Another defect of the plan is that a body of trustees responsible only to public opinion is created for a purpose very uncommon in trusteeships: trustees frequently have the care of real estate and sometimes carry on business for a brief period while closing up an estate; but the proposition before us is that a self-perpetuating board of five trustees undertake to carry on a mercantile business, with the details of which none of them can be familiar. No prudent owner of a business fails to give directors to a business manager who has only a salary interest. When...
...work as a teacher, and became deeply interested in the promotion of improved methods of teaching the Classics, in the development of higher instruction in the University, and in the advancement of productive scholarship. His learning was varied and profound; his mind was vigorous and characterized by an uncommon quickness and agility; his intellectual curiosity was insatiable. Both through his books and in personal intercourse with teachers and students he strove to inculcate better methods of reading Latin and Greek, and he was the first to apply the test of translation at sight in the examinations for admission to Harvard...
...lack of good food, in any sense of the word. He was a bright clever fellow and never showed any peculiarities in manner or dress. It is a shame that publicity has been made of his slight breakdown in health, an occurrence that is by no means uncommon to a comparatively large percentage of men in any great college; and I, for one, can see no excuse for the printing of such a false report as the one here referred...