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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...membership in the Wendell Phillips Club at 7.30 this evening in Sever 11. The question is on Cleveland's Hawaiian policy. The debate will be open to all members of the University. Immediately after the debate there will be a business meeting and election of members. All members whose names did not appear in the Index are requested to be present and sign the constitution. The last meeting of the club before the midyears will be held next Friday. There will be no debate as the semi-annual election of officers occurs on that evening...
...Cleveland within one week and some of the alumni of the three colleges proposed giving a cup to the clubs that gave the best concert. A committee of judges was appointed, but the plan was finally given up. A dance was given for the clubs by Mrs. Corning, whose son was a member of the Harvard class of '91. The occasion was a most enjoyable...
...terms and two vacations. The terms were of twenty weeks each and the vacations each six weeks. Beginning in 1849 a recess of four days in each term was allowed when the students could be away from college. In that year also provision was made whereby meritorious students whose circumstances required it might at the discretion of the faculty be absent for a limited time, not exceeding thirteen weeks including the winter vacation, for the purpose of keeping school. In 1852, the commencement day was changed to the third Wednesday in July, and the winter vacation made seven instead...
...last of the great painters of the Renaissance were Tintoretto and Paul Veronese, whose pictures cover the walls of Venice. Veronese was the latest, and in some respects, the greatest painter in Venice. Though in his works there is no depth of religious sentiment, there is an abounding fullness of life, and everything is fresh and natural. At the death Tintoretto and Paul Veronese, Italy lost the last of the giants of the Renaissance...
...from time to time in the University Calendar. The lectures will be grouped so that each lecturer will cover his ground within a fortnight. It is of interest to know that these lectures are provided by the generosity of Mr. James A. Garland, the well-known New York banker, whose gifts of gems to the Harvard Museum have already made him one of the University's benefactors...