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...glad to commend to the attention of the University the current number of the Harvard Monthly...
...Plutarch. Yet his library did not swamp him, and though his essays are pockmarked all over with quotations, his temper is essentially modern, indeed, he is the first of the properly modern writers. It is not as ladders to the languages in which they are written that I would commend these books, but the languages as ladders to them, where by we may climb to a larger outlook over men and things, to a retreat lifted above the noises of the world. It is not the scholarship I look at, but the sympathy with their higher mood, with that sweetness...
...Boat Club will be very generally approved. It has always seemed unnatural that a students, simply because he happened to join in the fall, was given longer use of the boat house privileges than another who joined in the spring. The reform will certainly be one more thing to commend the boat house to students...
...heartily commend the meeting in Sanders Theatre tonight to the attention of the students. It is certainly a cause which ought to find warm support from Harvard students...
DANTE PRIZE.Three essays for the Dante Prize for 1893 were handed in. The committee of the Dante Society on the awarding of the prize find no one of the essays worthy, in their judgment, of the Latham prize, which was the only one offered this year. They commend, nevertheless, the essays by "G. del Fabro" and "Thomas Alwood"- the one for the form in which the author has set forth his matter, the other for the evidences of research displayed...