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...last number of the Advocate, "there is nothing," as we might have said in the eighteenth century, "that could be construed by the nicest reader into a trespass upon the rules of decorum." There is nothing--story, verses, or editorial article--that would not deserve, at least a satisfactory grade if offered in an English course in Harvard University. In these respects the number is superior to many of the magazines with brilliant covers that you may buy for fifteen cents in the stations of the Cambridge Subway. To the present reviewer, also, this Advocate is quite as interesting...
English 61 hf., Eighteenth Century Periodicals, will be given on Mon. and Fri. at 2.30 P. M., instead...
...play which has been selected for revival is an eighteenth century comedy by Thomas Shadwell. It is an arraignment of the foppery of the age which it represents and is full of funny characters and humorous situations perfectly intelligible to the present-day audience...
...most important event of the week ending Monday at Princeton was the vote of the members of Whig Hall to abolish secrecy in that institution. Whig is one of the two literary societies at Princeton, and it has been a secret organization since its foundation late in the eighteenth century. This step of doing away with secrecy in the Halls has been agitated by the Daily Princetonian and the Nassau Literary Magazine; Clio Hall, the other of the two institutions, has not yet had the matter before it for consideration. The vote in Whig was a preponderating majority...
Professor Fernand Baldensperger will deliver the eighteenth of his series of lectures on "Etudes de litterature comparee. Le type de Thonnete homme' et les classiques francais du XVIIe siecle" in Emerson D this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. His subject for today is "Moliere jusqu'en 1661." The lecture will be in French and open to the public...