Word: york
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Classical Club has invited Dr. Julius Sachs, a well-known philologist, of New York, to deliver three lectures on Greek vase paintings. These lectures will be held on Thursday, the 23rd, Friday, the 24th of February, and Friday, the 2d of March, in Boylston Hall. The lectures will be copiously illustrated with the stereopticon, and promise to be of very great interest. The subject will be treated in a manner that will appeal very strongly to a cultivated audience, as the lecturer will treat of the Greek vase paintings in their relation to the Homeric poems and the later...
...postponed meeting of the Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association was held in New York last Saturday. Mr. L. McK. Garrison was there to represent Harvard. Delegates were present from the University of New York, Princeton and Stevens Institute. The meeting was a very quiet one, and after the customary business of the Association had been transacted, the championship for the year 1887 was formally awarded to Harvard. Lehigh University was admitted into the Association. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, V. M. Harding, of Harvard; vice president, B. Stevens, Stevens Institute; C. M. Hapwood, N. Y. University, secretary...
...Phon Lee, the Chinese graduate of Yale, who recently married an American maiden at New Haven, Ct., is one of the editors of a weekly to be called the Chinese Evangelist, and soon to be started in New York...
...Trumbull-Prime collections, the collection of Etruscan potteries made by Professor Frothingham and several others, most of which are well known; and recently a collection of bronze medals, medallions and coins of Modern Europe and America has been presented to the college by Mrs. Robert L. Stuart of New York. Perhaps the most interesting series of medals is the one cast in honor of the president of the United States by order of Congress. There is also an interesting series commemorating the Declaration of Independence...
There are a number of medals struck by the Chamber of Commerce, New York, in honor of Robert Anderson and the defenders of Fort Sumter; also one to defenders of Fort Pickens. They are in several different sizes. There is also a series of facsimiles in wood of bronze medals struck at the time of the Centennial. There is besides an important and interesting collection of medals in memory of famous French and American battles and naval victories. A large number of medals in gold and silver commemorate the election, inauguration and episodes in the career of some...