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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This is a book of something over 400 pages, of octavo size, not too thick, or too, heavy or too expensive for every wise traveller who is interested in casties to take with him to Scotland. The information given is just about what one wants-a brief architectural and historical account of a hundred of the most significant Scotch castles. The interest and value of the book are, moreover, greatly enhanced by the fifty-one illustrations, mostly pleasant, brown halftones, but comprising also four colored plates and seventeen plans. There is a short introduction, which outlines none too convincingly...
...University Mineralogical Museum has recently received two very interesting and valuable additions. A friend has given the Museum a huge amethyst which is crystallized in about five hundred hexahedral prisms. This stone, which is remarkable for its size and dark purple color, was found in Minas Geraes, Brazil...
...more popular and racial appeal. Moreover the Harvard Dramatic Club will, by a series of competitions, select the best acting talent in the University as a whole; its sphere is far greater than any existing organization; its chances are, then, far better. At almost every other college of considerable size, there is a dramatic club, which presents in English modern plays, of popular appeal, with a cast carefully selected from the best the University can provide...
...last evening it was voted to grant permission to the Pierian Sodality to take a trip outside of New England during the Easter recess, April '19 to 26 inclusive. The trip is expected to cover some 1500 miles, extending west to Buffalo and south to Washington, including concerts in size of the following cities, to be chosen according to the degree of interest manifested: in New York state--Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Utica, Oswegeo, Itchaca (at Cornell University), Poughkeepsie (at Vasar), and New York; Philadelphia and Pittsburg, AEL Baltimore, Md., and Washington, D. C. Should the interest warrant, the trip...
After the races, a water-polo game was played between two scrub teams, the small size of the squad making it impossible to hold an interclass contest...