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...University Library has received from the General Advisor to the Government of Siam a large sum of money, raised by subscription in that country for a memorial to the late Professor Edward H. Strobel '77. This is to take the form of a fund, the income of which will be devoted to the purchase of recent books on Siam. In addition to money contributions, authors of books on subjects connected with Siam, have sent copies of their work and the Council of the Siam Society has also contributed a full set of the Journal of the Society...
...first thought all these descriptions of our virtues may seem rather an unnecessary and vulgar form of advertising, but on consideration the merits of this far-reaching plan are evident. Across the Hudson River, the idea prevails that Harvard is too much a New England college, and that a man from the West is not welcome here. It is to dispel this unfortunate illusion and to present the true state of affairs in Cambridge that speakers are being sent throughout the country, armed with facts which cannot be controverted...
...Royce's Symphonic Study showed high aims, an elevated style of some complexity, many episodes of compelling beauty, but as a whole it seems as if the composer had set himself a difficult problem to maintain the thread of continuity without the aid of a closer adherence to conventional form. In substance, however, this work is so interesting as to demand another hearing before attempting a more authoritative opinion. In the first movement of Mr. Clapp's quintet we feel at once the solidity and breadth of structure, although the treatment of the strings is occasionally at variance with traditional...
...number of the Illustrated Magazine opens with some characteristic sentences by Dean Briggs on the President-Elect. Addressed in the first place to a group of students in English 5, these remarks on the election of Mr. Lowell form, in their mingling of grace, frankness, and humor, perhaps the happiest comment so far made on the event which is of so much interest to us all. This event will remain in the minds of most readers of the second article, that of Mr. S. A. Mellor on the Oxford Undergraduate. Everybody is now meditating advice to the new President, formulating...
...expected that in May Mr. Jacob Riis will give a lecture in the Union on the present condition of the slums in New York, in order to acquaint those men who are to live in New York with some of the city's slum problems. The following men form the committee to carry on the undergraduate activities of the Harvard Mission: chairman, W. R. Ohler '10; secretary, E. T. Wentworth '09; W. S. Whittemore 4M., D. C. McCallum 3Dv., A. L. Thayer 2L., H. B. Barton '09, F. H. Burr '09, K. S. Cate '09, J. M. Groton...