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Some of the largest men in college have offered to act as lictors, while prominent athletic men will personate the Senators. The vestal virgins will be personated by some of the smoother faced and more fair-haired sons of Harvard, and cannot, of course, be expected to give perfect satisfaction to the lictors' critical sense of female beauty. Mr. Lawrence Barrett has given valuable advice in the stage directions, and will aid in the management of the representation. While it is not to be expected that the leading roles will be filled in a manner which will compare favorably with...
...commencement at Williams will be of especial interest this year as both Henry and James A. Garfield are in the graduating class and both have commencement parts. Mrs. Garfield will be present. The class numbers sixty, and is the largest senior class for several years...
...class of two hundred and fifty abandoned mathematics, ninety-five Greek, and only sixty-five Latin. Very few abandoned all three. The courses mostly taken in preference to these were principally the Natural History courses, 3 and 4, Chemistry 1, and History 1 and 2. History 2 was the largest course in college this year, numbering 161 men, and the work done in it was very interesting, and covers a large amount of ground. Of these courses, which were embraced by a large body of the freshmen, only N. H. 4 could properly be called a soft course, while History...
...giving them five buildings, good libraries, expensive apparatus, large gardens and well paid professors. Almost every university is noted for some special branch of science, as Kiev for medicine, Dorpat for astronomy, and Moscow for natural sciences, although at each all subjects are taught. The University of Moscow, the largest and oldest, was founded in 1755, and has a library of 175,000 volumes, 1,600 students, and 75 instructors. The yearly fees are about 100 roubles, or $75 in our money. The government gives 400,000 roubles per year towards its support...
...largest audience that has yet attended this course was present last evening in Sever 11 to hear Prof. Paine's lecture and illustrations on Beethoven. The lecturer began with a short sketch of the stormy and unhappy life of the greatest of all musical geniuses,- his unhappy boyhood, and still more miserable manhood, embittered by the heartless conduct of his nearest relations, and by that premature deafness which shut him out from all the world of musical sound. Several interesting anecdotes were given of his eccentric habits. In his works he carried the art of music to its highest perfection...