Word: year
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...expedition will probably remain in the field during the greater part of the coming year...
...plan which Mr. Gordon has proposed and which has been adopted by the Museum, involves the purchase of a tract of land adjoining the ruins in the Copan valley and comprising several thousand acres, and the building of a house thereon to serve as headquarters for exploration from year to year. The runs will furnish an abundant supply of building stone ready at hand, and the forests of pine, cedar and mahogany growing on the land will afford a supply of building material which will be found convenient, in the absence of facilities for transportation...
...Pedant Joue," which is going to be performed by the Cercle Francais this year, will not be produced as originally written by Cyrano de Bergerac, but in a modified form. H. B. Stanton '00, president of the Cercle, revised the play, and has reduced it in length from five to three acts. The play has probably never been put on the stage before, although large passages have been borrowed from it by Moliere. The fact that it was written by Cyrano de Bergerac, whose name Rostand has made so famous, also adds to its interest...
...students, hundreds of men have annually worked under its supervision. The purpose of the organization is to give students the opportunity of doing charitable work under skilled direction, and to supply men for the numerous activities in Cambridge and Boston. Some man of expert acquaintance with charities is every year engaged as director to instruct and aid the men in the work. The members of the committee for this year are: Mr. T. H. Ropes Instr., chairman; Durant Drake '00, secretary; E. C. Stern '01, treasurer, and also Professor G. H. Palmer, Professor F. G. Peabody, R. C. Bolling...
With an unusually large number of old members back, the musical clubs should have a very successful year. The Mandolin Club has already been reduced to its permanent form. It includes nineteen old members and six new men, and is probably the most advanced of the three clubs. By adding the drum, violin, etc., it has developed an orchestral form for seven or eight parts. The Banjo Club has fourteen out of twenty former members, and sixteen candidates are now trying for the vacancies. Last year the club was not up to its usual standard, but this year...