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...Ward said that these lectures were not supposed to contain a complete treatment of Anthropology, but were intended rather to illustrate the application of that science to certain selected problems, and that he hoped in this way to make the general scope and uses of Anthropology better understood and more fully appreciated. Dr. Ward wished it to be clearly understood that religion had nothing to fear from Anthropological study...
Then came the feather-weight sparring between J. S. Dodge, H. A. A. and P. Marquand, H. A. A. Dodge got rather the best of the first round. The second was very close. In the third, Marquand had the advantage on account of his superior staying power. The judges ordered another round, which was in Marquand's favor, and he was given...
...Wheeler said that the Parthenon was always regarded with the greatest veneration by the Athenians. The temple was a splendid offering to Athena, rather than a place for her worship; the Erechtheum was the temple devoted to her worship. Nothing shows the veneration of the Athenians for the Parthenon better than its history, for it was never desecrated in any way until the disappearance of the chryselephantine statue of Athen. This statue disappeared about the middle of the fifth century, A. D.; at about the same time the temple came into the hands of the Christians and became a church...
...However desirable it may be that this change should be made, we feel sure that a very large number of those who have given any attention to American colleges as a moral influence will wish it had been made by the faculty rather than by the overseers. That the faculty should be overborne on a matter of discipline by an outside body having no share in the management, is certainly calculated to aggravate the most serious defect of our collegiate system. Nothing does so much to prevent a "collegiate education" as it is called, in our day and generation, leaving...
...Boston Technology the outlook for '89-90 is very promising in some respects, and rather discouraging in others. Just now the prospect for a good 'varsity nine this spring are doubtful. Most of the men who composed the last nine have left college, and the material among the under classmen is undeveloped. Men well up in athletic circles are almost unanimous in their opinion that no representative nine will be placed in the field this season. One important reason for this is the fact that the new State armory on the Union grounds practically deprives Technology of their...