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...Restoration Period the art of realistic fiction was practiced. Hitherto the narratives were thought to be biographical instead of fictional. The Press also announces a translation by G. W. Robinson, Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, of "Eugippius: The Life of Saint Severinus," a document of the history and life of the Fifth Century, for the first time translated into English...
...once a reality and later a tradition, is now largely a myth. In its place there is the right sort of rivalry combined with clean sportsmanship. Dean Briggs has commented on this feeling in his report on athletics. His words, bearing added weight because they appear in an official document, sound the welcome closing of a needlessly hostile attitude, that has long and steadily been growing weaker at both universities. Yale and Harvard have too much in common, their ultimate aims too nearly coincide for any petty barriers to exist between them...
...manuscript or that one may be studied in the light of collateral material, either in printed books or in manuscripts whch the students may find near enough at hand to be of immediate, practical value. There will be an unrivalled depository in the new library at Cambridge, where a document or a manuscript is so well reinforced, as it were by the proximity of such other great manuscript collections as those in Boston, Worcester, Providence...
...Professor L. J. Johnson, of the Engineering Department, drew up a charter on the commission form of city government, modeled after the newer charters of the western cities. This document was submitted to the voters on a referendum and it was defeated, the chief objection being that it did not take sufficiently into consideration the peculiar needs of Cambridge. Professor Johnson has revised this charter and it will probably be again submitted to the Legislature and to the voters at the next elections...
...charter Commission began its work by a careful study of needs of Cambridge not fulfilled by the present charter and an investigation of the inadequate provisions of that document. As a result of this investigation, greatly facilitated by Professor Munro's experience in the matters of municipal government, a number of recommendations as to changes were drawn up. These recommendations are embodied in the draft of the proposed charter and embrace changes in many departments. Various other proposals were made, such as the adoption of a Commission form of government, the abolition of party designations, preferential voting, and others...