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...were engaged in the riot begged that they might share the same fate, because they were all equally guilty. The riot was Anglican rather than Protestant in its character; was deliberately planned by English high church men, and was intended to rebuke the chief lay representative of the Roman propaganda in the university...
...Grecian and Roman systems and ideas of physical development, said Dr. Sargent in a recent lecture, differed in that the former had three ends to attain - a perfect mind in point of education, a perfect working condition of the organs of the body, and especially a perfect body in the point of beauty and art - while the latter's sole object was to fit the body to endure the hardships of war. Thus among the Greeks we find the most perfectly and beautifully developed athletes. At the fall of Rome, and with the rise of Christianity, there was a change...
...numismatic collection, presented by Robert N. Toppan, '58, is one of the most interesting contents of the room. There are eighty-five Roman coins well arranged in a handsome ebony case. The dates range from 400 B. C. to 337 A. D., including specimens of the silver, gold and copper coin of the ancient Romans. The collection is excellent, as showing the progress of the Roman art of coinage, and though not as complete as could be desired is still very instructive. The coins are all well preserved. The most interesting coins in the collection are specimens...
London swells, it is said, are wearing suits, made by Poole, of bright silk plaid, the colors resembling a Roman scarf. It remains to be seen whether America will adopt this latest freak of British barbarism...
...American colleges 155 are now using the Roman, 114 the English, and 34 the Continental pronunciation of Latin...