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...meeting of the Canadian Club on Saturday evening, Mr. B. G. Gordon, the leader of the Harvard Honduras expedition, lectured on the "Ancient Cities of Central America." Mr. Gordon described his trip to Honduras and his visit to the old cities of the interior, whose remarkable ruins give some idea of the civilization which flourished there ages before the coming of Europeans to America. These cities, once so magnificent, are now overgrown by forests, inhabited only by wild animals, and many of them seldom visited by man. Mr. Gordon also told several anecdotes illustrative of the character and customs...
...musical clubs returned from their annual Christmas trip yesterday morning. At every city in which they gave concerts they were heartily welcomed by the Harvard graduates, and the trip throughout was one round of entertainments. At nearly every city some prominent club extended its privileges to the students. The new plan of travelling in the daytime and stopping at hotels at night gave the men much needed rest and made the trip even more than usually enjoyable...
...given by Mrs. Osborne. An early start was made the next morning and Albany was reached early in the afternoon. A tea was given to the clubs by Mrs. Rathburn, and the Fort Orange Club invited the men to make use of its privileges. The last concert of the trip was given at Bleeker Hall and was a great success. A very jolly reception followed at the Fort Orange Club, where, with the feeling that there was no more necessity of "sparing" their voices, the members of the Glee Club sang themselves hoarse, and Mr. Wilder was called upon again...
...principal sights before they left. A few of the men went to Mt. Vernon during the day. In the afternoon a tea was given in honor of the clubs by Mrs. John G. Walker. The concert in the evening was one of the best given during the trip, and Mr. Wilder's Hawaiian song with its political hits was very enthusiastically received...
...weather in Pittsburg was damp and dismal, and the men were not sorry when the train started Thursday afternoon for Cleveland. The members of the clubs had a much needed rest of a day here, and on Friday gave the best concert of the trip. The musical clubs of Harvard, Yale and Princeton all gave concerts in Cleveland within one week and some of the alumni of the three colleges proposed giving a cup to the clubs that gave the best concert. A committee of judges was appointed, but the plan was finally given up. A dance was given...