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...been attempted. One might argue, and with good reason, that if the time could not be recorded any better than it has been in past years, the practice had best be done away with altogether. But why could not the time be posted in some reliable and systematic manner--say every five minutes until towards the end of the half, when it might be posted every minute...
...himself. Why, for example, did the Pilgrims place their settlement and their college in so flat and uninteresting a spot as Cambridge? Simply because elsewhere the land was so covered with glacial stones that the farmers had to build walls to get rid of them. In a similar manner, the geological formation of Massachusetts Bay made possible the fisheries which made our forefathers a sea-faring race...
...Montagane's "An English Disciple of Zola," goes over the work of Mr. Gissing in a comprehensive manner. For a critical writing it is more than ordinarily interesting...
...former, to which, as he teaches, Turner's art gives expression. These higher orders of visual truths are, however, not those which are commonly perceived. "People commonly," he tells us, "recognize objects by their least important attributes. To lay hold of the non fundamental and expressive truths, in the manner of Turner, requires a higher order of artistic gift, and to appreciate them requires ocular training, as well as natural aptitude...
...establishment of the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship in Greek Studies. This fellowship has been established by Mr. James Loeb '88 of New York, "in grateful recognition of the long and great friendship which Professor Norton has shown him since his boyhood, and in order to record in a fitting manner the eminent services which Professor Norton has rendered the cause of Archaeology, and his beneficient prominence in the Archaeological Institute of America and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens...