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The President further suggests that college games should be played on college grounds. The place does not seem to us so very important; the crews must row away from the colleges and one of the best features of the football matches would be lost if the support was onesided. It...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1894 | See Source »

In the architecture of a city, the plan of the streets, and the positions of the parks and squares, the consideration of good circulation is of the greatest importance. Paris leaves a much pleasanter impression on the mind than London or New York, because the parks, squares and monuments of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Hastings's Lecture. | 2/16/1894 | See Source »

Mr. Poulton first spoke of the color of animals as adapted to purposes of concealment. This adaptation, he said, goes beyond merely affecting the surface of the animal's body and is deep seated in the nervous system. Some insects closely resemble dead leaves, and as a dead leaf with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Address on Colors of Animals. | 2/8/1894 | See Source »

Such then is the impression which has been made throughout the country by this effort to reduce athletics to their proper level. A more propitious state of affairs could not be desired. The college world is evidently willing to be influenced by reforms which are beyond a doubt instituted wholly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1894 | See Source »

Extreme Realism is saying too much, and extreme Impressionism is saying too little, but saying the right thing is just as acceptable in painting as in society, and the impression of the real and the reality of the truth in painting is saying the right thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Art Lecture. | 1/27/1894 | See Source »

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