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...following appointments were also made: George Foot Moore, D.D., L.L.D., acting curator of the Semitic Museum during the absence of the curator; Howard Levi Gray, Ph.D., instructor in History for the second half-year of 1908-09; Philip Haskell Sylvester, M.D., assistant in Pediatrics for the remainder of the current academic year; Raymond Berguer Johnson, A.B., assistant in English for the second half of the current academic year...
Professor Bury very wittily brought out the striking difference in character between Herodotus and Thucydides by the way both treated the causes of the Peloponnesian War. Where Herodotus related with great dramatic effect most of the scandalous and rather immoral stories then current among the Athenians, Thucydides serenely ignored these and showed us the true elemental reasons for the conflict...
This indicates the most important phase of the value of Thucydides's historical work, namely, trustworthiness. Although it took a large amount of firm independence, Thucydides departed entirely from historical methods current in his day and emphasized accuracy as the prime necessity of history...
These words, beautiful in themselves, but long since forgotten, are the only memorial to our Harvard heroes. A year ago the CRIMSON suggested that their names be inscribed in the Union, and the current number of the Advocate takes up the matter anew. Memorial Hall, as its name implies, does honor to the heroes of the Rebellion. Shall there not even be some little tablet to remind us that in the lesser cause Harvard's sons were at the front...
Professor F. W. Taussig '79 has been selected by the Department of Economics of Amherst College to deliver the Henry Ward Beecher Lectures at that college for the current year. Three lectures will be given on the general subject of "The Economic Effects of the Tariff since the Civil War." The first lecture will take place Wednesday and the other two will follow on April...