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...Wednesday from a freshman, criticising the stand taken by " '89" in regard to proctors. As far as I have been able to judge, most of the upper-classmen agree with " '89" that these gentlemen sometimes do make nuisances of themselves. And it seems to me that our little friend "Adolphus" has laid open to severe criticism not only himself but the class which he claims to represent. In the first place I should like to ask how many college examinations our friend has gone through in the course of his long experience? Is he any exception to the rule that...
...Four 'Funny' Characters," is a cynical sketch of the life of four different types of college student. The style is rather too jerky and unpolished. Carlyle is jerky and unpolished; but Carlyle is forcible. Nobody can read "My Friend Blobbs" without enjoying its cleverness and the clear individuality which the writer makes out for his friend Blobbs. It seems he knows his man well, and he surely succeeds in making him "an open book" for all who will read this amusing sketch...
...Miss Anna C. Lowell, toward the fund for a botanic garden, $1000; Henry Gassett estate, for sustaining annual dinner of the class of 1834, $1000; Robert Treat Paine, to found the Robert Treat Paine fellowship of social science, $10,000; Uriah A. Boyden estate, $237,387.78; from an anonymous friend, per Mr. Agassiz, $2500; Henry Lee, $1500 for the salary of an instructor in political economy; Mrs. Henry Draper of New York, $4500 for prosecuting researches in stellar photography; Robert Waterston, $1000 for the library; Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, $2000 for salaries in the herbarium; Martin Brimmer...
Begging you to accept my hearty thanks, since I can give no more, I remain very sincerely, your friend and fellow-student, James Russell Lowell. DEERFOOT FARM...
...ninety-one special, who was assigned to a club table in Memorial Hall to fill a vacancy left by the withdrawal of one of its members, was recently asked to change his seat to some other table in order to make room for a friend of those who made up the club table. Without assigning any reason for his refusal except that he did not care to be obliging, the fellow flatly denied the profile request of the members of the table...