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DURING the last month there has been collected for the H. U. B. C. $284.28. Of this, $226.50 is from the Subscription List of $1,572.50, which during October was reduced to $1,358.50, and $7.78 from the Treasurer of the '76 B. B. C. towards the debt of $282 against that class. There still remains to be collected...
...have mentioned these works, not only because they are interesting in themselves, but to call our readers' attention to this Shakspere Society, and to show what a good work it may do if well supported. The list of members up to last July includes 413 names, yet after but 35 of these stand the letters U. S. A. It can hardly be supposed that this number represents all those in this country who care enough for the study of Shakspere to enter the society, and we cannot but hope that Harvard undergraduates, at least, may in future be more fully...
...modern policy of the College becomes more evident year by year. The day of "soft things" is passed; the very lecture-rooms wear an appearance of having the decks swept and ready for action. "Occasional examinations" are scattered broadcast in every elective, and heavy is the list of deads. The traditional softness of the junior year is rapidly assuming the form of a myth; an unfortunate member of that devoted class was heard sadly to remark that he had had five examinations, two themes, and one forensic in four weeks, and had just been grievously harassed in the Dean...
...West, who have just received our first issue of the year, and think to fill up their attenuated sheets by an attack on the style of matter in ours. Did it never occur to these children of the prairies that we do not depend absolutely on our exchange-list for support? Let them accept with thankfulness the food furnished them, remembering that even muscular literature is better than that of the whining stamp...
...There are sixty-seven colleges mentioned where women are taught together with men, and twenty-eight more where they alone are admitted. The fact that these institutions do not have more students shows that it is not necessary to open any more at present. Vassar, of course, leads the list of Colleges only for women, and she has but four hundred and eleven students...