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...have received a communication bearing rather hard on the two Sophomore societies, the Institute and the Athenaeum. It accuses them of electing men simply because they possess musical talent, and without regard to their literary ability. We have received many communications, since the paper was started, criticising the action of societies in various ways, and we have uniformly declined to publish them, for these reasons: in the first place, it has generally been very evident that the writer, not being a member of the society which he criticised, knew very little about that which he discussed; and then...
...officers of the Everett Athenaeum for the present term are: President, C. F. Thwing; Vice-President, F. MacArthur; Secretary, F. H. Morgan; Treasurer, J. F. Botume; Chorister, H. T. Finck. Editorial Board, C. A. Dickinson, A. L. Bond, and W. K. Dyer; Standing Committee, S. H. Jecko, A. A. Wheeler, and G. E. Woodbery...
...Athenaeum records a sale at London of a number of the prints that have been heliotyped: Durer's "Melancholia," pound 31; Marc Antonio's "Adam and Eve," pound 59, and his "St. Cecilia," pound 50; Rembrandt's "Three Trees," pound 123; a print from Van Dyck's "Iconographia," pound...