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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that begins in grotesque comedy closes in genuine tragedy. The seen is laid in New England in the days of witchcraft, and the story turns on the transformation by a witch and her diabolical ally of a scarecrow into a supposed English lord, who keeps up a semblance of humanity so long as he continues to smoke. The daring of the conception may be imagined when it is said that this grotesquely ludicrous figure develops a realization of the moral bearings of the human situation in which his creators, for the paying of old grudges, have placed him; and finally...

Author: By W.a. Neilson., | Title: Percy MacKaye's "The Searecrow" | 5/27/1908 | See Source »

...auspices of the Harvard Socialist Club, in Emerson Lecture Room, this evening, at 8 o'clock. His subject will be "Socialism." Mr. Kelly is well known as a municipal government reformer and is the author of "Evolution and Effort, and Their Relation to Religion and Politics" and "Government or, Human Evolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Edmond Kelly on "Socialism" | 5/18/1908 | See Source »

Twenty-five plates from Bissing-Buckman's "Denkmaler Agyptischer Sculptur," loaned by the University Library, are now on exhibition in the glass cases in the Periodical Room of the Union. The pictures which consist of friezes and human figures illustrate the work of the Old and Middle Empire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Egyptian Sculpture Plates in Union | 5/15/1908 | See Source »

...held during the vacation at the Medical School on Longwood avenue, Boston. Tonight at 8 o'clock Dr. C. J. White '90 will lecture on "Some Preventable Diseases of the Skin"; tomorrow at 4 o'clock Dr. T. Smith will lecture on "The Relation of Animal Life to Human Diseases." Next Saturday at 8 o'clock Dr. C. Harrigan '84 will lecture on "The Cocaine Evil"; and the last lecture of the series will be given by Dr. W. T. Councilman '99, on Sunday afternoon, April 26, at 4 o'clock on the subject of "Tumors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Lectures of Medical Course | 4/18/1908 | See Source »

...LECTURE. "The Relation of Animal Life to Human Diseases." Dr. Theobald Smith. Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar | 4/18/1908 | See Source »

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