Word: local
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Among the stories, "Pete La Farge" by Mr. Ernst is notable as a triumph over limitations of space. Though but a trifle over three pages long, it lacks scarcely one of the properties which the current practice of our best ten-cent magazines proves helpful toward securing publication. Local color, uncouth dialect, primal passion, heroic resignation, a moral struggle, and a savage fight march in perfect order to an artistically vague ending. A fit companion to "Pete La Farge" is "The Morrigan." Mr. Schenck piles on lurid horrors with the ungrudging hand of love. Beside his sketch, Mr. Proctor...
...short stops at Nashville and Memphis. Having visited the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, President Eliot went to Austin, where he was the guest of President S. E. Mezes '90, of the University of Texas. While there he spoke before both houses of the state legislature and addressed the local Business League on "Municipal Government." At San Antonio, on February 26, he was present at the dinner of the Association of Northern and Eastern College Men in the Southwest. After spending four days at Houston and Galveston he left for New Orleans, where he delivered the Founders' Day address...
This exhibition is the most important local art event of the season and is representative of the best art of Germany, which is little known in this country. Emperor William has sent several pictures from the royal museums, and many other works of the best known German artists are included in this collection...
...last year, Professor George A. Reisner '89 began the excavations at Samaria, for which the Turkish authorities granted a permit in October, 1907. Baurath Dr. Gottlieb Schumacher of Haifa accompanied Dr. Reisner to continue the work after the latter's return to Egypt. After two interruptions due to serious local difficulties, relief from the Turkish authorities enabled a month and a half of digging to pass without further annoyance. At the end of August the money available for the first year was exhausted, and the work was accordingly brought to a close. The total amount of time devoted to excavation...
...Monday President Eliot will attend a dinner given by the Harvard Club of Buffalo, and on Wednesday he will address the Religious Education Association in Chicago, where he will also be present at a dinner of the local Harvard Club. On Saturday he will attend the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and in the next few days will visit the University of Minnesota and Hamline University. February 16 he will spend at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., whence he goes to Dallas, Texas, arriving there on February...