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...whole story of Saturday's Waterloo is told in Harvard's error column, and in the batting and fielding columns of Yale. Harvard had a magnificent nine against her, but that does not excuse the way in which she simply did not play ball. The Yale freshman team taught not only the Ninety-five nine, but taught all of us something about the game of base ball. Their base running, though, to be sure, they did not have a very strong battery to guard against, was worth watching and taking example from. But the feature which characterized the Yale playing...
...Schuyler van Rensselaer's article on St. Paul's Cathedral though full of architectural technicalities, is interesting, and must be especially so to students taking Fine Arts 4. It is very liberally and beautifully illustrated by Joseph Pennell, the view of the cathedral from Waterloo bridge, on a foggy morning being especially well drawn. The paper by Richard Rathbun entitled "The United States Fish Commission" gives a very interesting description of a unique department of our government of which we may well be proud; the style is refreshingly free from technicalities and scientific terms...
...leading article in the March Scribners will be the first of two papers by Mr. John C. Ropes on "The Campaign of Waterloo...
John C. Ropes gives two illustrated lectures at St. James' House, North Cambridge, on "Napoleon and Waterloo," on Tuesday and Thursday evenings this week...
Messrs. J. R. Osgood & Co. have just published "The Life and Letters of Francis Lieber," edited by Thomas Sergeant Perry, late instructor in English, and lecturer in English literature at Harvard. Lieber's life was an eventful one. Having recovered from wounds received at Waterloo, and taken part in the effort to free Greece from Turkish rule, Lieber was forced by political persecutions in Germany to leave the Fatherland. After vainly struggling to earn a living in England, he came to this country in 1827, and settled in Boston as director of a gymnasium and swimming school. Later he went...