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...Ricardo Prize Scholarship, of $350, to R. G. Usher '01; the Sohier Prize, $250, to C. M. Underwood, 1G., for the thesis entitled "A Comparison between the Critical Methods of Sainte Beuve and Taine"; the Phillip Washburn Prize, of $75, to M. J. Kling '01, for the essay entitled "The Genesis of the Public Land System of the United States"; the Bennett Prize, of $40, to R. E. Goodwin '01 for the essay entitled "American Shipping and Shipping Subsidies"; the Sales Prize, of $45, to A. E. Goddard '02, for the translation of a passage from Archbishop Trench's "Calderon...
...comparison of "Vanity Fair" with "Becky Sharp," it must be remembered that one is the work of a great dramatist, the other of a minor playwright. At the outset it is manifest that the novel must be radically altered in plot before it can be put on the stage. It needs, as playwrights say, a "situation...
...University football eleven that will compete against Yale next fall will in all probability be chosen form the same general material as that of last season. Although this might seem to presuppose the same unfavorable comparison with Yale material as existed last year, yet such is not the case. Yale loses many of her most valuable men, including Hale, Olcott, Stillman, Fincke, Brown, Coy, and possibly Bloomer. It was these men that gave the Yale team its great power. Harvard on the other hand loses but one regular line man, Lawrence, and has the advantage of beginning the season with...
...afternoon with Columbia. The game will be played on Soldiers Field and will begin at 2 o'clock in order not to interfere with the baseball game. Last year Columbia defeated Harvard, 6 to 3. This year Columbia has played five games and won two. The only basis of comparison between the Harvard and Columbia teams is found in the games with Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania defeated Columbia on April 27, 4 to 3; Harvard defeated Pennsylvania on May 4, 6 to 1. Columbia has improved considerably, however, since the Pennsylvania game. Nine of Columbia's men and ten of Harvard...
...audience that took advantage of every chance for applause. The men on the clubs gave their selections with fine spirit and the rule of "no encores" was broken early in the programme. After that every number was encored most enthusiastically. The Harvard clubs showed up very well in comparison with those of Yale. The Mandolin Club did especially well and it was their excellent rendering of Delibes's "Pas des Fleurs" which called forth the first encore. The Glee and Banjo Clubs also gave some fine selections but they did not seem to have as much volume as the Yale...