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Other announcements following the meeting include the gift of a bust of the late Professor Frederic Ward Putnam '62 to the Peabody Museum by Mr. J. B. Stetson...
...philosophy lecture-room students who have read Plato with delight. It will prepare for the courses in history students who have lived with the Romans elsewhere than in the Forum and on the battlefields of Gaul, who have known other Greeks than Homer's heroes. It will be the gift of a new literature to cherish while life lasts. And it will mean the true socialization of the classics. After all, there is no reason why it should not be as natural for an engineering student to read Sophocles as to read the Bible. To give engineering students Latin...
...bequeathed to the College would contain the names of most of the writers of the nineteenth century. When these are added to the catalogue of those which Mr. Winsor and Mr. Lane have for many years been accumulating for the College Library, recently very largely increased by the gift of Dr. Rupert Norton's collection, by those in the Harry Widener Library, and those of Mr. Robert Gould Shaw, the College will have available for use a very important body of material illustrating the personality of nearly all the men and women who have had a dominating influence upon...
...prose in this unusual number of the Monthly is scarcely less notable than the verse. Best of all is "Temptation" by Mr. Watson, whose fantastic yet unadorned humor is a gift rare indeed. The saints stirring "uneasily in their thrones" shows the white flash of genius. Mr. Fay's "By Olympus," not-withstanding the "hymadryads" (this issue is defaced by misprints on almost every page), is another little master-piece of delicate comedy. A Bacchus that smiles in his sleeve is surely a god we may all worship. A pleasing prose-poem and Mr. Wright's severe indictment of Chesterton...
...gift of $10,000 to the Military Department of Cornell University, made for the purpose of forming a summer military camp at Ibhaca similar to that at Plattsburgh last summer was announced at the university on Tuesday. The money will be used for the personal equipment of the cadets as well as for camp equipment...