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...Anthropological Club has arranged a series of three lectures, to be given in the Fogg Lecture Room on the following dates: March 28, "Recent Anthropological Investigations in the Southwest," by Professor Stewart Culin, of the Brooklyn Institute; April 12, "What Our Civilization Owes to the American Indian," by Professor A. F. Chamberlain of Clark University; April 22, "Recent Anthropological Investigations on the Northwest Coast of America," by Mr. H. I. Smith of the American Museum of Natural History, New York. The lectures by Professor Culin and Mr. Smith will be illustrated by stereopticon views...
...form of government has thus far been a failure in the case of cities, has brought forward problems for the educated man to solve. He then showed that the great size of New York makes the combat against evil particularly interesting. Mr. Hinrichs then narrated the history of Brooklyn politics since 1881, as a good example of how upright men with high ideals have succeeded. He told how Mr. Low, a practically unknown man, became mayor of Brooklyn twice, although the city was normally of the opposite political party. After describing the course of politics there until its consolidation with...
President Eliot will leave Cambridge today to attend a reception given in his honor at the University Club of Brooklyn this evening. Tomorrow afternoon the President will speak in Philadelphia under the auspices of the Public Education Association, and in the evening will be present at the Philadelphia Harvard Club dinner. President Eliot will return to Cambridge on the morning of Monday, January...
...ballot music from Professor J. W. Paine's opera, "Azara," will be played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at its concerts in New York and Brooklyn this week...
...Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock, on "The Puritan and the Government" of the Modern American City." Mr. Shepard graduated from the College of the City of New York in the class of 1869. From 1883 to 1885 he was a civil service commissioner of Brooklyn and was chairman of the civil service committee of that city from 1888 to 1890. During the year 1884 to 1885 he was a member of the New York State Forestry Commission. Mr. Shepard is a prominent lawyer and an active Democrat. In the municipal elections in the fall...