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SCENE, the Montpensier Collection. - Brown. Why do they call that picture a Madonna? - Smith. Because so many criticisms are made on her, you know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

...list of men trying for the University Crew has not yet been fully given. We believe this is a complete list: James, Otis, Thayer, Lawrence Scientific School; Wetmore, '75; Brown, Hall, '76; Taylor, Stiles, '77; Bancroft, Ely, Loring, Morgan, Yates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

...brown silken tresses that circle thy head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO A PORTRAIT OF BIANCA CAPELLO BY TITIAN. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

Meanwhile Amherst and Brown, who had been denied a vote on the definite interpretation of the word any in the amendment to the Constitution passed April 2, 1873, - whereby "any college not represented in any Annual Regatta of this Association shall not be considered a member of this Association, or have any vote in its convention," - feeling themselves aggrieved, and Harvard, fearing that injustice might possibly be done, moved a reconsideration, which was carried. Their cases being taken up separately, it was decided to allow Brown a vote, who, by the irregular calling of the last Convention, was unrepresented through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONVENTION OF THE R. A. A. C. | 1/15/1875 | See Source »

...original motion as amended. Mr. Gunster of Williams spoke strongly in favor of coxswains, while Mr. Cook of Yale opposed them as too sudden an innovation. Harvard urged the proposition, which was finally assented to by a vote of 6 to 4, - Yeas, Columbia, Harvard, Trinity, Williams, Princeton, Brown; Nays, Yale, Trinity, Wesleyan, Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONVENTION OF THE R. A. A. C. | 1/15/1875 | See Source »