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...fellows, professors, instructors, etc., a new feature will be a list of assistants in all departments from the first appointment about 1870. There will also be some changes in the class lists under the names. It has always been customary to insert degrees and appointments received by graduates. But hither to appointments from certain colleges only have been recognized. The list in future will include all masterships received from secondary schools as well as from colleges. Lists of the deans in all the departments will be given and, in the class lists, the office of instructor is to be noticed...
...shaken before the was not the reed shaken before the wind, nor the man clothed in soft raiment, but the prophet. These three symbols are types of characters that are before us to choose front; the reed is the man in college or in public life who is blown hither and thither by every breeze and unable to stand firm against temptation; the man in soft raiment is the being who has no higher aim in life than the attainment of social notoriety; but the prophet is the true, strong spirit, breathing forth hope, comfort and peace...
...third annual convention of the Church Students' Missionary Association will be held at the Episcopal Theological School, on Brattle street, Friday and Saturday of this week. The conventions have hither to been held in New York, and the choice of Cambridge for the third one is a very considerable honor. A number of Cambridge men are interested in the Association, three serving on the Executive Committee. A very attractive program has been prepared. Among those who will deliver addresses are Rev. Phillips Brooks, Rt. Rev. P. U, Dudley, Bishop of Kentucky, Rt. Rev. B. H. Paddock, Bishop of Massachusetts...
Frequent demands have been made during the last few years for a course in contemporaneous history, but hither-to without success. Next year, however, Professor Cohn proposes to give a course upon the actual state of European affairs, including such questions as Home Rule, the Bulgarian Question, the relation of the Great Powers to each other, etc. The newspapers will be used from time to time in connection with the other text books. The course is French 11, a course in French conversation, therefore only those who are able to understand French will profit by this opportunity...
...esplanade in front of the gymnasium was a glare of torchlight and a blare of horns. Drays loaded with special features were placed along the sidewalk, while mounted officials galopped hither and thither pushing and driving the restless crowd into shape. Much merriment was caused at this time by the freshmen lighting their torches long before the parade began, and thrusting them into each other's callow faces, and under the spectators' noses with childish glee. The veterans from '87 and '88 stood indifferent and unmoved while this pandemonium was going on about them, and greatly facilitated proceedings...