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...Watertown road near the Polo Grounds. Thence across the fields to the north shore of Fresh Pond, and skirting the shore back to Brattle St., where the break was made. Part of the course lay through marshy ground, whereby the hounds succeeded in soaking their paws. Master of the hounds, A. B. Robinson, '87; Hares, Baldwin and Dean, '88. First hound in, Dana, '88; second, Baldwin, '90. The hares won by sixteen minutes...
...shorter path to his goal than he took. Gestures are a world of expression in themselves, and consist in the actions which truly and unmistakably interpret the emotion they serve to express. With them there is no shadow of turning, for they are founded on truth. You must master all the details of elocution, such as, standing, and I perceive that few of you know how to stand even, - enunciation and action before you can have your body at our command for the expression of your feelings. But this, in fact is all that elocution can teach you, to have...
...Taylor, Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, England, and Vice-Chancellor of the university after January next, will preach at St. James's Church, corner of North Avenue and Beech Street, next Sunday evening. November 14, service commencing at 7.30. The public, the students of Harvard University in particular, are cordially invited to attend...
...Paris, and as time went on the power of the Chancellor was taken from him and put in the hands of this association. This revolution was effected with the aid of the civil authorities, who saw the value of the Universities more clearly than the Church did. The masters refused to accept any one given a license if he did not suit them. The initiation of the new master into the body of the masters consisted of a lecture and a dinner...
From this ceremony comes the collegiate use of our word Commencement, derived from the French word which was used to designate this initiation of a new master...