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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sophomore dinner held last night at the Hotel Vendome was large than any class dinner given hitherto, and a perfect success throughout. The speeches, impromptu as well as prepared, and the choruses, all tended to draw the class together into a solid unit, so that from the beginning to the end all present united in a feeling and an expression of loyalty for the different organizations of the University, and for the class...
...Conroy answered to the toast of "The Class" with a stirring plea that the enthusiasm and class energy which had hitherto been characteristic of '99 might not be allowed to slacken. B. H. Dibblee made a witty speech apropos of the boat races and the English stroke. P. G. Carleton asked for a more widespread interest in debating. One of the best features of the evening was a poem read by J. F. Brice, which was full of personal hits and allusions...
...departments are now posted in the south entry of University. Including those which have already been announced, over eighteen entirely new courses and half-courses are to be given next year. A number of others have been very much changed and a few courses given hitherto are to be omitted. Among the most important of the new courses are: French 7 and 7, two half-courses on Victor Hugo and the Romanticist movement, to be given by Assistant Professor de Sumichrast; German 5a, a half-course on the literature of the nineteenth century, to be given by Dr. Nichols; History...
...Femmes." What strikes one above all in these plays is their national character. They are the first purely national plays which we find in France at this period. Another most noteworthy fact is that these two comedies for the first time introduced the bourgeoisie upon the French stage. Hitherto the drama had dealt merely with the aristocracy. In Moliere the bourgeoisie found its exponent...
...Monthly entitled "Venus in the Light of Recent Discoveries," Perceval Lowell of the class of '70 publishes a discovery he has recently made, that Venus rotates on her own axis only once a year, thus keeping one hemisphere continually toward the sun, and the other hemisphere in perpetual night. Hitherto it has been supposed that Venus rotated more than once a year, though the exact length of her day was a matter of dispute...