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...wFOR sale at half cost, set of storm windows. Will fit any of the east or west bay window rooms in Matthews. Address, "H," care Leavitt & Peirce...
...being Mrs. Hemenway's desire that said collections should be kept together and not dispersed, I write in behalf of the trustees of Mrs. Hemenway's estate, to ask if your board would see fit to give space in the Museum for the installation of the collection pertaining to American Archaeology, the installation, classification, etc., to be under the immediate direction of Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, subject to the Director of the Museum, this work to be done at the expense of the trustee of Mrs. Hemenway's estate; the ownership and absolute control of the collection to remain with...
...unknown quantity, may be taken as a basis for a general group, but nothing more. Needs, on the other hand, can be determined with considerable accuracy, and offer a far more practicable basis for subdivision. As matters stand, the rational order of things is totally reversed. The test, fit for subdividing, is used for the general group; the test fit only for the general group is used for the subdivision...
...exertion. They not only have to devote themselves so thoroughly to one kind of activity as to make rounded development out of the question, but they so drain themselves of energy that, the four years over, they need to recover from past work, and are, at best, only half fit to undertake new work. About this fact, no full testimony can be given, and yet we believe that it is a general conviction, rooted in wide experience, that the men who take the highest rank in college are not, as a rule, the most powerful in after life...
Other plays, both in Greek and Latin, could be produced with profit. Greek and Latin, if they are to hold their own under present educational conditions, must be presented, not simply as fit tools for mental exercise, but as worthy of study for themselves,- as the introduction to other civilizations. To aid in this new method, no more valuable a means could well be found than the presentation of one of the best pieces of the classical drama...