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...reprint from the N. Y. Times an interesting and somewhat curious article on our Memorial Hall and its management - interesting as showing the opinions held by outsiders on the matter, and curious for the various misconceptions and exaggeration it contains. De gustibus non disputandum is a motto eminently applicable in this case; but yet it must be acknowledged that the article contains much truth, if sometimes too severely expressed. If it is a fact, as the writer states, that the poor quality of food at Memorial drives many to solace themselves at drug-stores, etc., it might, after...
...Reinhart has settled in Paris for the present, being engaged on various orders for illustrations from the Messrs. Harper & Brothers...
...just as these animals are taken advantage of most easily at feeding-time, so may man be most easily seen and studied, when, forgetting his occupations, his loves and hates, he assembles at the hour when mind and body crave repose, and proceeds, in various and unstudied ways, to replenish exhausted resources, mental or physical. Pliny says, somewhere, of the Greeks, that it is their distinctive quality to hide nothing, and this quality, it is thought, is what gave the Greeks that "grand simplicity," which makes them, for all time, masters in the realm...
...independent institution, subject to the control of a managing committee chosen by the Archaeological Institute," whenever an endowment of at least $100,000 could be secured, to provide for the salary of the director, the rent and care of a house, the purchase of books and the various expenses which might be incurred in carrying on the work of the school. This building should contain apartments for the director and his family, and suitable rooms for the meetings, collections, and library, and eventually, when the resources of the school should warrant it, there might be in the building rooms...
...annual report thereon to the committee. There will be no prescribed course of study for members, excepting the presentation of four theses annually upon work done during the year. The course shall extend to three years. For the present, members are to be chosen and sent by the various cooperating colleges as they see fit. It is expected that there will be eight or ten pupils at the school next year, and among them possibly a graduate from Harvard. One student, at least, will probably go from New Haven and one from New York. These students, supported by fellowships from...