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...having the weight that should belong ot any expression of opinion based on experience and thought. It is proposed that this club, to consist of such playgoers as shall be invited to join, shall meet from time to time to listen to addresses on dramatic subjects directly suggested by current productions, to discuss the merits and demerits of such performances as may at the time be attracting public attention, and in general to make the best thought and taste of Boston felt in the dramatic life of the city. While the social side will not be neglected, and, as opportunity...
...corespondent which has been going on in the columns of the Nation with reference to the American use of the word "college" has given occasion for some very interesting quotations from the Harvard archives. In a letter which appears, in the current number, Mr. W. G. Brown of the University Library rejects the assertion that the word "College" as applied to a single building in the early records, was a dialectal use which sprang up in America. He quotes two items from an old inventory of the college property, dated twenty years after the founding. They refer...
They are accomplished in two ways: by the regular meetings and by public lectures. The meetings of the club are bi-weekly. At these meetings current educational questions are studied and discussed...
...means. The experience gained by the club during the two years of its existence shows that these objects can be best accomplished in two ways. First by holding public meetings at which eminent civil service reformers may address the club, and secondly by enabling students to obtain readily the current literature of the cause. The public meetings have been largely attended and have met with great success. No one who heard Mr. Herbert Welsh's address last week, could fail to be inspired by the speaker's enthusiasm, or could help seeing the necessity of the reform which he advocated...
Dudleian Lecture.The Dudleian Lecture for the current year will be given in Appleton Chapel on Oct. 16, at 7.30 p. m., by the Rev. Brooke Herford, D. D., now of Hampstead, London, lately minister of the Arlington Street Church in Boston, and Preacher to the University from...