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...VOCAL entertainment of promising excellence is announced for next Thursday evening, March 4 at the Cambridge Conservatory of Music on Lee St. It is to consist of Readings by George Lyon, Jr., '77, who is well known as a reader among the literary circles of Cambridge, and has acquired a reputation by public readings elsewhere; he is to be assisted by C. H. Kloman in one selection from Shakspere. The vocal music is by D. M. Babcock, '77, and among others he is to give "King Macbeth," "Friend of the Brave," and an "Aria from Don Giovanni...
...evening of the 17th inst. there assembled at the rooms of Mr. J. Rogers Rich, No. 151 Tremont Street, quite a number of that gentleman's friends, among them a delegation from the H H Society, of which Mr. Rich was an active member in "Ye olden time." The occasion of this assembly was a private reception given to his friends, that they might visit his art rooms (The Cluny). Mr. Rich has brought from France the art of bronzing plaster casts, and he had arranged in his rooms, with admirable taste, statues, busts, vases, etc., exhibiting the beauty...
EVERY one who has gone through college must have noticed a greater or less change among his acquaintances. We do not mean a "change of heart," any moral improvement, or the reverse, but a sort of intellectual development, and alteration in the point of view from which men regard life. Now these changes are so various that it never occurred to us that they could be comprised under a single formula, till we stumbled across a remark in De Bernard's Gerfaut, one of the most worthless of French novels. The clown of the story has a social theory which...
...covered with butter. This indeed is a trifle, and for the perfection of the English bourgeois-artiste character we must go to Dr. Johnson. There is a good deal, after all, to be said in excuse of the first gentleman of his time letting him wait in the anteroom among the lackeys; for except in his learning and moral character, he was little better than they; while in personal habits and delicacy of feeling they were probably his superiors...
...vantage-ground, and it seems but fair we should here express in concert what finds daily expression in the jokes or grumblings of individuals. Why, then, does the anachronism still-exist of a rule in the Schedule of the Memorial Hall Association forbidding the use of alcoholic drinks among the diners at the Hall? In the old days, when the unbending sternness of one part of the community had led to disgraceful indulgence among those who refused to yield to such asceticism, it was well for the Faculty to prohibit all liquor at Commons; but times have changed...