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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Canoe Club to build an addition for their own use, as by so doing they would secure the privileges of the boat house. A committee consisting of Messrs Crowninshield, Cheney and Townsend was appointed to confer with Professor Agassiz who has immediate control of the plan in order to find out under what conditions the addition could be built. and what privileges the members would secure...
...said that the difficulty men find in choosing a profession wisely, is owing to the fact that while in college they have only a very superficial idea of how the world's business is transacted. Therefore be would advise every undergraduate to take up some work during this summer recess. A man who followed his advice would choose the profession by which he could most help his fellows. If a man is in doubt between two vocations, let him choose that which will bring him most in contact with his fellow men. Dr. Hale believes that journalism is an unworthy...
...first editorial criticises the man ner in which the English courses devoted to Shakespeare and Spencer are conducted. It urges greater attention to matter ann less to philology. The second is of more general interest. It shows that the only channels by which student opinion can find expression are the college papers; but that the graduates, the overseers, and the faculty, who especially should be in fluenced, seldom read the papers. It calls upon the students to recognize and insist upon their position, and thus compel outsiders to "turn to the papers that they may learn at leastone side...
Inasmuch as there are many men in college who would like to see the theatricals, but who find the price of tickets rather beyond their means, the managers have decided to give a special Cambridge performance in the club-house on Holyoke street, Tuesday evening, April 23, at 8.30 o'clock, For this performance tickets will be sold to members of the University at $1. The performance will also be open to residents of Cambridge-not members of the University-at the usual rate, $2 a ticket. One-half the house will be reserved for those purchasing two-dollar tickets...
...appeared in 1811, 1812 and 1813 respectively, Goethe gives a story of his early life. Many contemporary portraits also are included, among which that of Goethe's father, is especially valuable. "Truth and Fiction" is a very misleading translation of the title of this work. Wahrheit we expect to find, but Dichtung seems mysterious at first; it is evident, however, that the latter word refers to the perspective into which Goethe threw his narrative, and according to which the leading events of his early life were given prominence. In the first three volumes of "Dichtung und Wahrheit," Goethe's literary...