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...Board of Aldermen of the City of Cambridge will today vote finally on the project of a tunnel to be run from the Boston Elevated power house on the Charles River parkway to the College Yard. At the meeting on last Tuesday, the plan was discussed pro and con and it was decided to refer the matter to the Highway Commission. During the past week this body has gone over the draft and plans of the enterprise and the Board of Aldermen will pass on it finally this evening...
Professor Ernst con Dobschutz, of the University of Halle Wittenberg, will give his fourth Lowell Institute lecture at 8 o'clock tonight in Huntington Hall, on the subject of "The Influence of the Bible on Civilization...
...Ames, of North Easton, J. Baker, of Wellesley; L. Berman, of Boston; W. J. Boles, of Boston; H. B. Cabot, of Brookline; G. C. Caner, of Philadelphia, Pa.; A. C. Clark, of Boston; J. A. Clark, of New York, N.Y.: A. Coolidge, of Boston; M. Cunningham, of Litchfield, Con.; E. A. Douglas, of Buffalo, N.Y.; D. Duncan, of Port Washington, L. I., N.Y.; R. Harte, of Philadelphia, Pa.; J. Ca. Harris, of Brookline; G. E. Leighton, of Monadnock, N. H.: H. W. Minot, of Boston; J. E. P. Morgan, of New York, N.Y.: H. L. Sweetser, of Boston...
Meets for the gymnasium team have been arranged with Brown and Amherst, in addition to the usual series of exhibitions and the intercollegiate con-test...
...Saturday edition, our friend Quintus Flaccus would be tempted to remark:--"Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus". Indeed the whole affair, from the mingled applause and that combination of 'hiss' and 'sneer' which so worries our friend, to the newspaper article, the letter and the now current argument pro and con, smacks of hyperbole...