Word: current
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Librarian desires to obtain for the Special Collection relating to Harvard University in the College Library everything that illustrates in any way the current life of the College. To this end the co-operation of the students in general and in particular that of officers of College Societies, Classes, Papers, etc., is asked...
...conjunction with several other libraries the Harvard Library is engaged in making a subject index to the current publications of the learned societies both in this country and abroad. The list of publications to be indexed covers 185 titles and includes the works of all the important societies. The work is being done under the auspices of the Publishing Section of the American Library Association and if it proves successful, the scope of the plan will be enlarged by including perhaps government publications and works of a composite nature...
...current number of the Lampoon contains nothing startlingly funny, but the jokes and pictures are at least interesting. The centre page gives a very elaborate and complicated plan for a "Ten Day Go-As-You-Please" race, in which many students took part during the holidays. The drawing is very well done...
...most interesting article in the current number of the Advocate is a story by Frazier Curtis '98 entitled "A Story of Soldiers Field." It is a strong, vivid tale of a Freshman athlete disappointed in his great desire to play on his winning football team against Yale by his own foolishness. This for once is a college story, which is real and natural to a college...
Professor Bocher delivered a lecture on "Le Medecin Malgre Lui" yesterday afternoon. He said that Moliere compounded the plot from two stories that were current in his boyhood. Similar tales were common even as far back as the Sanskrit. The names of the characters are thoseth at Moliere kept on hand, and used in various plays for persons of the same general character: thus Geronte was always a disagreeable...