Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There have been several slight changes in the plans for fall rowing. The race for the graded crews of the two boat clubs will be held on Thursday, November sixteenth, instead of on the seventeenth, as previously arranged. This change was made to enable the men to attend the dinner to last year's crew, which will be held on the evening of the seventeenth. Instead of the two first crews having a separate race, it is probable that all four graded crews will race together. The distance of the Freshman race, which will be rowed on November eleventh...
...Averill won the twelfth, 3-4, driving within two yards of the cup. The thirteenth hole was halved in six. By a perfect four, Averill won the fourteenth, and was then two up. The fifteenth hole was halved in five, and the sixteenth in six. Averill won the seventeenth, 5-6, as Pyne made a poor shot from the woods for his third. The players halved the honor hole in a far three leaving Averill three up on the morning play...
With its twenty-two hundred volumes, the French Library is also very complete. These include the literary history of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the history of fiction, of poetry and of the drama; a collection of French drama; the more important dictionaries and the works of the prominent French writers. For French history, there are the works of Michelet, Martin and Godefrey; for reference and research, "Le Dictionarire de l'Academie Francaise," Littre's Dictionary, Larousse's: "Dictionaire Universel" and "La Grande Encyclopedia." Among the complete sets are numbered those of Corneille, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucaud, Molicre...
...Library was able to bid at the sale and purchased 529 volumes. These make a notable beginning of a collection on the Eastern question, which Mr. Lane intends to make as complete as possible. Many of the books are of great rarity, especially those of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries which contain accounts of the contemporary wars of the Turks in Europe...
...selection from the collection of engraved portraits by the great French metal engravers of the seventeenth century is now on exhibition on the east and south walls of the print room in the Fogg Museum...