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...negative 49. A ballot was taken on the debate as a whole resulting in a vote of affirmative 15, negative 21. The question for debate at the next meeting was left in the hands of the executive committee. The debate was very instructive on the whole and great interest was manifested...
...College, and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, will give three lectures on art and archaeology, at Columbia college, on the following two subjects: "The Influence of Athletic Games on Greek Art;" "The Spirit of the Art of Phidias." These subjects we know are of fully as great interest to the student of Harvard as of Columbia. It the Harvard Art Club had given any assurance of the least vitality during the present year, we would suggest that it make an effort to induce Dr. Waldstein to repeat his lectures in Cambridge. As it is we would appeal...
...more portraits, in short there are several of them in each of the principal rooms. The best picture extant of the foundress, Queen Elizabeth, is in the Trinity collection. Last of all there is the room of the director of the library; it is small and of no special interest in itself, but in it stands the chair of Charles Lever, the novelist. He sat in it when he wrote "Charles O'Malley" and others of his stirring novels. It is now the property of the college and has held since his time many other famous men. Previous...
...Cook, which won Yale the race at Longmeadow in 1873, has been revived under his careful supervision. Mr. Cook is amply satisfied with the material at hand and expects them to win the race next June when they shall have become fully practised in his method of rowing. Much interest and enthusiasm is shown by the men. Several of them during the Christmas recess visited Philadelphia, the home of Captain Cook, trying hard, under his personal instruction, to forget the disastrous stroke used last year. Part of the plan to overcome the old fault has been to make the crews...
...many years since that two courses in American History, a subject which has always interested an unusually large number of students, were offered by the college. At present we have only one, although that course is esteemed one of the most popular and useful in the college. Why so little attention outside of this one course, is paid to a subject of interest to all both in a practical and a scholarly sense, it is difficult to say. Harvard through its graduates and instructors at various times has always taken a leading place in the development of the study...