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President Jordan's studies have covered a wide range, but his specialty is fishes, and he is an acknowledged authority in this branch of science. He has printed over 200 papers on American ichthyology and a manual of the vertebrae of North America. He is the vertebrate anatomist of whom President Eliot spoke last night...
Outing for March is unusually excellent. The table of contents shows a wide variety of subjects, and almost every article is written by a specialist. Of especial interest to college men are "The Sports of an Irish Fair," "Association Football," "A Bout with the Gloves." in "The Sports of an Irish Fair," Robt. F. Walsh puts in a claim for Ireland as the country where base ball had its origin. "Association Foot Ball" is a plea for this particular branch of football. The author thinks that football as played under the association rules ought to become the national winter pastime...
Bayeux was shown to give an idea of an old Norman town. It is perhaps as little changed as any other. Here is the famous tapestry, a half yard wide and some two hundred long, which Queen Matilda and her maids are said to have worked. It describes the events of William's reign and ends abruptly with the battle of Hastings...
...University. In addition to this suggestion that Harvard men should endeavor to know something about the most important of the professors, there might have been a similar suggestion concerning some of the older worthies who have had some previous connection with the University, and who have acquired such a wide spread fame that any man of average information, whether a Harvard man or not, ought to know something about them...
Architecture also receives its due share of attention. An illustrated article is devoted to the Renaissance castles in Touraine, sculptured and turreted and haunted with memories of Agnes Sorel, Diane de Poitiers, Anne de Bretagne, etc. Then a wide step across the Atlantic takes one to far-off Milwaukee where the "Wes tern Mansion" of the late Emil Schandein furnishes the subject for a description by George H. Yenowine. The house is very large, architecturally German renaissance and is considered one of the sights of the "blonde city of the lakes...