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...following criticism is made on the Harvard crew: "Mr. Bancroft deserves the greatest credit for turning out the crew in such shape. The men who occupy the last four thwarts are as perfect a rowing four in style, time and swing as ever sat in any American college eight, and it is only in front of these that individual faults are to be found which mar the perfect uniformity and symmetry of the crew. Captain Hammond, who rows at No. 4. carries his oar up too high at the end of his feather and misses the first part...
...valuable addition to the Amherst College art gallery has been recently received, in the shape of two rare casts. One is Michael Angelo's "II Penseroso," and is the only cast of the statue in America. The other is the "Sleeping Ariadne," the original of which is in the Vatican...
...human nature, even if it is theoretically expected under Harvard's system of instruction, that men should look after their best interests only, and with a single purpose, when incentives and temptations of all sorts, many of them placed there by the college itself in the shape of honors and rewards resulting from marks, should lie in their...
...Academy says : "The project has already taken shape to celebrate the bi-centenary of the death of Murillo, which took place in Seville in 1685. It is proposed to have a collection not only of the works of Murillo himself, but also of his contemporaries of the Spanish school and of living Spanish artists as well...
...Herald says that the end of the second week of practice for Harvard crews this season finds them in not much better shape than when they took their first...