Word: various
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Pennsylvania has decided to hold an intercollegiate athletic meeting on Franklin Field April 24. There will be a five-mile championship race, open to teams of five men from all colleges, and a mile championship race, open to teams of four men. In addition to these races the various colleges entering will be grouped to compete against each other in mile team races, efforts being made to match colleges in which there is the greatest rivalry...
...steadily increasing number of courses offered in the Summer School and the more than proportionate accompanying increase in the number of students attests very clearly the value of the instruction there offered and the growing need among various classes which it meets. It affords to a few men in college a convenient opportunity to make up deficiencies in their work. To the ambitious student who wishes to supplement his regular work and to obtain the most ample training and instruction in the shortest possible time and with the least possible expense it is a great advantage...
...take the regular college course at Harvard and take the only opportunity offered them, in the leisure weeks between the closing and the reopening of school, of working under Harvard instructors, and of study in the College Library. In returning to their work in the fall they spread through various parts of the country Harvard methods of instruction and, it is to be hoped, something of Harvard's aims and spirit...
...house was over 160 years old, but had lately been redecorated. A typical Roman house of the time from Nero to Vespasian, it was much more elaborate than was usual at that period. Behind the "atrium," or living room, is found a large court or peristyle, from which opened various small rooms and the large dining room. The latter is more a picture gallery than a room designed for ordinary use. The "atrium" also is surrounded by various smaller rooms, and is supplemented by another atrium and a kitchen...
...peristyle are eighteen Corinthian pillars and many statues, both large and small, besides various tables, fountains and the like. It is much the most interesting part of the house...