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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present academic year is about the same as last year. Considerable interest has been felt in the new courses of study opened this year in banking, commerce and diplomacy. Other new courses are offered in debating, one being very similar to what was so long known at Harvard as "English 6." These courses are under the direction of Dr. Alden of the English department, who was for a time connected with the English department at Harvard...
...Charles Townsend Copeland '82, University Lecturer in English Literature, has, with the assistance of Henry Milnor Rideout '99, edited an edition of Tennyson's "The Princess." The book, a little volume of about one hundred and fifty pages, is one of the Lake Series of English Classics which are being produced under the direction of L. T. Damon '94, now an instructor in the University of Chicago. The publishers are Scott, Foresman and Company of Chicago...
...Century of Science" is the title of a new book published for John Fiske '65, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. It is dedicated to Thomas Sergeant Perry, Professor of English Literature in the Keio Gijuku at Tokyo. The book contains fourteen articles, some of them addresses and others reviews. Among the subjects treated are the following: "Cambridge as Village and City," "Francis Parkman," "Sir Harry Vane," and "The Bacon-Shakespeare Folly...
...successful in that there was a marked increase of instructors and pupils in each department over the preceding year. The membership between October and May consisted of sixty men and one hundred and seventeen women, and the total attendance was 3,062. In all there were 34 classes in English, history, languages, mathematics, and natural science, in addition to seven special classes in music. As a result of the spirit manifested throughout the year, nine dramatic entertainments, two concerts and an operetta were given by the members...
...twenty seven regular courses offered this year in the various branches fifteen are conducted by Harvard men. A. M. Tozzer '00 is at the head of the educational department, and the men teaching are: English, A. W. Cooper '01, F. C. Tood '00, R. C. Hatch '00, W. T. Foster '01; French--E. B. Hilliard '00; German--W. M. Seaver '00; Greek--B. S. Welsch '01; History--S. G. Wellington '00, D. H. Farr '00; Mathematics--S. H. Batchelder 1L., K. B. Emerson '02, A. D. Wyman '01, H. Linenthal '00; Natural Science--G. B. Collier '01, W. F. Williams...