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...trophy offered in the series is a bronze shield, indicative of the team championship of New England. The bouts to-night will be with foils, and the individual championships will be contested in the subsequent tournaments with sabres and duelling swords. Each team chooses a judge for the competitions, and the four judges thus chosen will select a fifth; the Harvard club has appointed H. Clapp...
...will read a paper before the meeting on the Tzetztian Scholia, on the Aves of Aristophanes in Cod. Vat. Urb." Dr. Charles Peabody '90, of Cambridge will read a paper on "Some Prehistoric Stone Ornaments of America," Dr. G. H. Chase '96, of Southborough, will read a paper on "Shield Devices Among the Greeks" and Mr. Edward Robinson '79, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will read a paper entitled "The Magical Papyri as a Source of our Knowledge of Greek Life...
...trophy played for is offered by Mr. I. N. Rice of New York. It has been won twice by Cambridge and Oxford and, unless the American colleges win this year, the shield becomes the property of the English colleges. The game has been usually played by the American colleges in New York, the Associated Press furnishing the cable; but this year Harvard is making an effort to have the match played in Boston...
...transept of Memorial. The subject is a classical one, the young Cornelius Scipio being the ideal instance in both panels. In the first panel he is represented as going to battle, an angel sending him forth; and in the second, returning, kneeling before the angel, with his shield and the two spears of victory. In the base of the first panel is written the word "Honor" and in the second, "Pax." Above the two panels in the small triangular lancet is the class year...
...cups to be presented are of original design and very interesting in detail. Deeply engraved on the front of the cups is the name of the debate and the winner. A quartered Harvard shield is stamped on the top; but instead of the customary open book in the upper left hand corner is the name and date of the first debating organization at Harvard--"The Union" started in 1832. In the quarter diagonally below is the name and date of the "Forum" founded in 1893. A slightly raised band with the inscription "Harvard University Debating Club" encircles the shield...