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...gorgeous Cardinal, the papal legate sent in honor of the occasion. The Prince and his spouse, Princess Beatrice, magnificently arranged in brocade and blue velvet, ride by under a canopy, escorted by the noble ladies and gentlemen of the court, among whom the court fool, mounted on a frisky ass, plunges recklessly about. A group of students and professors are followed by a huge car, a sort of exalted chariot, on which sit five beautiful young girls, representing Ruperto Carola, Piety, Wisdom, Justice, Truth. This ends the first division of the procession. The next epoch begins with the triumphal entry...
...point of doctrine to the grave monk beside him. The end of the sixteenth century finds the gay court at its gayest. There are splendid cars with Ceres, Bacchus, Venus, sitting on them, while vineyard laborers, with grape-laden baskets, dance about them. Then comes Sileuns, reeling from his ass and surrounded by a fantastic bevy of mymphs satyrs, demons, goblins and bats. We move forward to the 13th of June, 1613, and ill starred Frederick of Bohemia, with his bride Elizabeth, daughter of James of England, heads a stately train. "The tea-cup time of patch and hood...
...Imagination killed a man,' and we fear that Harvard has a great deal of this quality (i. e., not poetic imagination). As our next door neighbor says: 'A man stuck on himself is the most pitiable of mortals, for he knows not the infinite pleasure of calling himself an ass." The East, on the whole, has too good an opinion of herself. Harvard, Yale and Princeton so frequently announce that they cannot be beat that many gradually believe them. We, too, should like to believe so, but somehow or other we can never induce ourselves to consider a man good...
...second meeting of the college conference was held yesterday afternoon. The faculty was represented by Professors Palmer (chairman) Shaler, James, Ass't. Prof. Croswell and Mr. Wendell. Huddleston, Merriam, Phillips, Smith and Vogel represented '86; F. S. Coolidge, Furber, Peabody, '87; Garrison, Lund, Thayer, '88, and Houghton, '86, and Adams, '88, the college at large. Coolidge, '87, was elected clerk of the conference. Mr. Merriam presented the report of the special committee appointed to correspond with other colleges on marking systems. The report embraced twenty two colleges. A general discussion ensued of the various systems, the tendency being to favor...
...members of the new conference committee met for the first time yesterday afternoon, and every member was present. The faculty is represented by the committee that was appointed last year to meet the students in regard to the formation of this conference, viz.: Professors Palmer (chairman), Shaler, James, Ass't. Professor Croswell and Mr. Wendell. The student delegates are as follows: From '86, Huddleston, Merriam, Phillips, R. D. Smith, Vogel; from '87, F. S. Coolidge, Furber, Herron, Peabody; from '88, Garrison, Lund, E. R. Thayer...