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Tenants of College dormitories may obtain for use in their own rooms Mazda (tungsten filament) electric light bulbs, which take only half the current used by ordinary bulbs and give the same amount of light, at the office of the Inspector of Grounds and Buildings, Massachusetts Hall. 25, 40 and 60 watts bulbs respectively of 20, 32 and 48 candle power may be had for 25 cents each. Cash payment in all cases...
...assemble a library of several thousand volumes of the best books in many fields so that readers of the most diverse tastes will find something to interest them. The most desirable in this division are works of the standard novelists, books of travel, sport, history, reference, and current novels or works on topics of general interest...
Someday, we hope, a Harvard man who has been inspired with the real enthusiasm which Harvard gives so many of us will write his confessions, or rather praises, to contrast them with the views of H. E. Stearns '13 who has confessed in the current Forum. Mr. Stearns finds that Harvard "fails to stimulate the majority of its students to take advantage of its opportunities, that "it furnishes a totally inadequate intellectual discipline, and instead of teaching a man good habits of work and steady concentration, it encourages lazy and vicious habits." He finds that he "has known more...
...trustees of the Dudleian lectures have appointed the Rev. Merle St. Croix Wright, pastor of Unity Church, New York, N. Y., to give the Dudleian lecture for the current academic year. The subject is the first of the series prescribed by the founder, Judge Paul Dudley in 1750, namely. "Natural Religion...
...chief interest of the current number of the Advocate lies in two articles contributed by the Exchange Professors from France and Germany at present in residence. That by Professor Baldensperger, deals with an obscure but in one sense remarkable figure, Joseph Kancrede, the first instructor in French in Harvard College. Kancrede seems to have held his position here from 1787 to 1800. Later he went to Philadelphia, and ultimately returned to France, where he died, in 1841. Professor Baldensperger has diligently collected the meagre records of Kancrede's activities, including various publications; and has thus made a notable and interesting...