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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...formal challenge from the Yale Whist Club for a team match of duplicate whist has been received. The details of the match have not as yet been agreed upon, but probably there will be little variation from last year; that is, the teams will play three pairs on a side, each pair to play forty-eight deals...
...hoped that if this plan can be carried out it will result in great benefit to debating, and will at all events place it upon a more secure footing in the University...
...higher education. He was a distinguished patron of art and as a connoisseur was widely known in this country and in Europe. He was president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and by virtue of this office had a place on the board created by statute to pass upon the suitability in point of art of public monuments to be erected in Boston. He was also a collector of paintings and owned some of the finest works of art in America...
...identity of Agassiz both in its personal and in its scientific aspects. It goes very fully, moreover, into the details of the work of Agassiz, though treating from the point of view of a critical and dispassionate observer. Correspondence, journals and personal impressions of various sorts are freely drawn upon, and no pains have been spared to render this the definitive account of the great naturalist...
...Armenians who are thus blindly massacred? Are they parvenus, intruders upon the Turks? Quite the contrary. They are the original inhabitants of the soil, where they had dwelt for thousands of years before the Turk came with sword and fire to take possession. In character industrious and thrifty, and in moral development in no way inferior to that of more western nations, it is particularly interesting for us to notice that they were the very first nation to embrace Christianity; their king accepting the faith for himself and nobles even before the conversion of the Emperor Constantine...