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Rehearsal of class song today at half-past one and at quarter-past seven. As many fellows do not come "because they can't sing" the chorister wishes to request them not to stay away on that account, for rough voices increase the volume of tone without sensibly marring its quality. Let all come and sing today and tomorrow and the class song will go off well...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Why should the library be aired at half-past twelve every day. That the library needs airing is unquestioned, but is 12.30 the best time for its daily airing? The large number of the students do not go to lunch till nearly one, and it appears to me that from one till quarter after there would be fewer students exposed to the draughts...
Alexander H. Stevens died at Atlanta, Ga., yesterday morning at half-past three...
...accompany him "for half an hour" to the inaugural ball, March 5, 1865. There is also a finely written letter, dated London, April 28, 1758, in which Franklin begs the college (Harvard) to do him the favor "to accept a Virgil I send in the case, thought to be the most curiously printed of any book hitherto done in the world." Some letters from Emmanuel Kant to the grandfather of Prof. H. A. Hagen of Harvard are here preserved. Here, too, is Longfellow's first draft of "Excelsior." dated "Sept. 28, 1841. Half-past three in morning." It is written...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: As there is a rule that no coal shall be delivered in the college yard after half-past eleven in the morning, why is it that loads are often empted in the basement of University during the afternoon...