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...Boston side of the draw. A meeting of the captains of the class crews was held last evening in Captain Herrick's room to arrange the preliminaries and draw for courses. The draw resulted as follows: The seniors will row over the inside course, or that next the wall; the freshmen come next, then the sophomores, and the juniors will have the outside course. This gives the seniors a slight advantage, especially if the day is windy or the water rough. The juniors and sophomores will have to pass through the same span. The officers of the race have...
...most interesting portioh of the ruins is the wall, about thirty-five feet long, which runs along a portion of the front of the stage. It is interesting because it appeals to the eye, being decorated with groups of sculptures in high relief representing Bacchnalian scenes...
...entrance was changed to the west end, and the Hekatompedos became the nave of the church, an aps being constructed at this end of the temple. The great chamber, or Parthenon, became the antechamber of the church, and was connected with the Hekatompedos by doors cut through the solid wall which had hitherto separated them. The interior arrangement of the temple was so changed as to make it conform to that of a Christian church, and vaulted ceilings were introduced...
...views comprised about sixty places of interest, and were thrown on the white wall by the calcium light. Starting in Italy, the first picture was the Bay of Naples; then followed in quick succession the fish market at Naples, the Carthusian monastery, Virgil's tomb, Vesuvius, showing the present Crater, several views of Pompell and many more. Next, passing over to Sicily, photographs of Mount Etna, the old quarries at Syracuse, a beautiful Greek temple at Argumentum, and the bay of Falermo were shown...
...delivery room and the present reading-room, which is to be converted into a large stack, able to contain about 500,000 volumes. The new reading-room is to be connected with Gore Hall by means of archways, and is to contain about 30,000 reference works in wall book-cases. The amount of money needed would be about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and although the president and fellows are quite unable to provide anything like the required sum, nevertheless, judging from precedent-money for the new medical school, for the museum for the botanical department...