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The gross receipts of the Harvard-Yale football game amounted to $41,844.00. Of this sum Yale received 55 per cent., or $22,019.25, and Harvard 45 per cent., or $18,015.75, after a deduction of $1,809.00 for expenses had been made.
Following is the programme for the organ recital to be given as usual tomorrow at St. John's Memorial Chapel, corner of Mason and Brattle streets: Rheinberger -- Meditation, op. 167, No. 8. Bach--Second Study, op. 28. Gaul--"These are they," soprano solo. Dubois--March of the Magi. Bach -- Prelude...
Mr. Louis Dyer, M.A., gave the last of his lectures on "Recent Discoveries in Crete" in the Fogg Lecture Room last night, taking as his special subject "Old Knossos and the Labyriuth of Minos." He said in part:
The first point to bear in mind about Crete and Knossos is primarily a geographical one, since the leadership in the Amorgan era and the great maritime empire in the Mycenaean Age were due entirely to the advantageous position of Crete. Thus when commerce and enterprise were fairly under way...
Everyone associates with Knossos the old legend of the Labyrinth and its Minotaur. The atr cities of this legend however were recognized in Plutarch's day as inventions, due chiefly to Athenian patriotism, which glorified Theseus at the expense of Minos. Nevertheless, Minos is in reality the sole and genuine...