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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book is its admirable conciseness and clearness. Even to advanced students it will prove valuable as a ready hand-book of definitions. The subject is treated in a strictly systematic way, the method being first to give a definition, then a brief elaboration, and lastly a simple illustration. The author lays no claim to originality, but aims merely to give an intelligible summary of the latest and soundest psychological the ories. While claiming to follow no school he takes a middle conservative ground between the intuitionists and extreme empiricists. As a text book it is far superior to the ones...
...first is entitled "Photography," and is from the pen of Professor John Trowbridge, director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. It treats of the growth of photography and its more recent applications to scientific study. The article is illustrated from negatives by the author and others...
...Franklin H. Sargent, a Harvard graduate, and former instructor in the university, is the director of the Dramatic Academy, and has had for his associates in that institution many theartical professionals. In New York the "Electra" was presented with great success, receiving the approval of leading educational and dramatic authorities. At Columbia college the students were given a half-holiday, and at the conclusion of the matinee witnessed by them, they gave loud calls for the author. In the Boston production at the Hollis Street Theatre, there will be shown as perfect a reproduction of the ancient Greek theatre...
...Columbia College Dramatic Club will present an original burlesque by G. A. Morrison, Harvard, '87, author of "Captain Kidd," last year's play, entitled "William Penn;" or, "The Quaker and the Romany Rye," at the Berkley Lyceum N. Y., for the University crew, on April...
...author of the Harvard Annex prize story, "A Psychological Adventure," is Mary E. Baldwin...