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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...summer course of five weeks in land and topographical surveying will be given. Students will have the use of the instruments and equipments of the scientific school...
...published this morning makes a suggestion which is a good one. The faculty has persistently refused to allow our base-ball nines to play against professionals, on the ground that it is degrading to college sport, and to the college spirit of gentlemanliness and fair play. There is no use in our going into a discussion of the subject, for it is one that has been worn smooth. But we do think that a petition, couched in plain but respectful terms and signed by the majority of men in college, might have weight with the faculty. They are working...
...such difficult themes as the shield of Achilles. His skill was, however, shown in the way in which he overcame the inherent clumsiness of the sea monster which usually accompanied Thetis. In the later vases the artist tried to give the effect of a foreground and background by the use of foreshortening; but, owing to the fact that he was confined to a single color, the attempt was not successful. The capture of Troy, as described by the non-Homeric epics, was a favorite subject, and was treated in a great variety of ways by a long line of artists...
...ancients from their monuments, and the Greek vases are perfect storehouses of knowledge about the private life of the Greeks. These vases have been preserved by being enclosed in tombs, and were not, as some have thought, especially designed for funeral purposes, but were articles in daily use. Their graceful shapes, combined with their lightness and durability, would excite our wonder even without the pictures with which they are decorated. The Greek artist was above all a craftsman, and delighted in showing his skill on household vessels. By means of the 20,000 or more specimens which we possess...
...must request those of our readers who use our columns for the insertion of notices of meetings, dinners, etc., to exercise a little more care in making these notices as short and to the point as circumstances will permit. The notices are not collected from the box at Leavitt and Peirce's until nine o'clock every evening. The paper for the following day is all made up by that hour, and it is a great inconvenience to the managing editor to find a string of notices of absolutely unnecessary length crowding out one of the other articles, and upsetting...