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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last night Professor Kittredge delivered his last lecture on the early English Gawain Romances. He told first the adventure of Gawain and two companions with the Carl of Carlisle, a huge monster, to whose castle they came one night. The Carl made some rather extravagant demands of his guests and only Gawain was polite enough to comply with them. He was rewarded with a seat at table beside Carl's beautiful wife and daughter. The crowning demand w. s that Gawain should cut of his host's head. With great reluctance he did as requested, and there sprang...
...Memorial Day, but as a body of students we have never taken in that service or held one of our own. It seems that at least once in a college generation a service should be held, distinctly the work of the students themselves, in commemoration of the men whose names mark the tablets in Memorial Hall, and to keen fresh in our minds and hearts the principle which ruled their lives. It would make the best that is in Harvard's past a more living force in the present...
...Green Knight, however, unhurt picks up his head and rides off. Gawain is to go to a place called Green Chapel and receive his return blow in a year. After All-Hallow Feast, Gawain sets out for the Green Chapel. At Christmas time he comes to a castie, whose owner, a huge knight, tells him that the Green Chapel is near and asks him to be his guest for a few days. For three successive mornings while the knight and his followers are hunting, Gawain is tempted by the Lady of the Castle. He resists her blandishments...
...second trial heat. The Yale supporters had strong hopes of Eaton's ability to beat Fearing and when these four men sprang from the mark in the final heat, there was an abundance of lusty Yale cheering. It did not avail to keep first place from Fearing, whose time was 25 3-5 seconds, - Eaton finishing a fairly close second, with Duane close upon his heels...
...Boulder. Leaving Colorado he went directly to California. He spent about two weeks in San Francisco and around San Francisco Bay. Thence he went to Southern California, visiting Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Redlands, and San Bernadino. At San Bernadino he saw the superintendent of schools, Alex. E. Fry, whose writings upon the teaching of geography are widely known. He then visited Mt. Wilson where Harvard once had an observatory. Afterwards he visited Lick Observatory and saw the fine equipment of Professor Holden. At Santa Cruz he saw some of the big trees of California, many of which were...