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...game, it is said, may have been played in America long before it appeared in Europe, since the Washoe Indians of Nevada have a species of it, but the ancient Greek "Episkuros," much like the modern game, would seem to have the priority. The Romans also had a game much resembling ours. In England foot ball has been played for hundreds of years and it is said that the first foot ball there was a Danish warrior's head. There is a tradition that the game was played in Derby to celebrate a third century victory over the Romans...
...Ballade," Mr. McCulloch gives a masterly dissertation on the history of this form of verse and of its masters, dwelling particularly upon Guillaume de Machault, Charles d' Orleans, and Francois Villon, the greatest of them all, who certainly has not been equalled in modern times...
...George B. Sohier prize of $250 is for the best theses presented by a successful candidate for Honors in English or in Modern Literature. The competitors may be undergraduates in the college, Harvard graduates resident as Graduate School students, or students pursuing courses of instruction in Cambridge under the direction of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. $450 has been divided into fourteen prizes, ranging from $20 to $40, which will be given to students of Semitic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, but only in case a high degree of excellence is attained. For the best...
After reading the article, Professor Royce discussed it, informally, with the members of the Union. The key-note, he said, of the modern idea in Ethics is that what should be sought is not, as the Utilitarians said, the greatest sum-total of good, but the highest organization, - the greatest good which can be obtained while still keeping development of the individual; in other words the modern idea is the greatest good to the greatest number of distinct individuals, as opposed to the Utilitarian idea of the greatest sum of good...
...celebration. In some respects, it might be called a Christmas art number; for the frontispiece is a reproduction of the painting of "The Holy Family" by Du Mond, a young American artist, who presents in this picture an original conception of the subject. The number also contains engravings of modern pictures relating to Christmas as follows...