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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SCENE, Recitation Room. Artful Student (who wishes to make a favorable impression on his French instructor, just before the Semiannuals). Monsieur, will you be good enough to tell me what books you would recommend me to read at sight outside of the class? Acute Instructor (who has been caught in the trap before). If you want something to read at sight, sir, I should recommend the books we have been using in the class...
...society, will preside. The tickets for the dinner will be $2.50 each, and they can be obtained from any of the undersigned, by personal application or by mail. If members will purchase their tickets at an early day it will greatly facilitate the efforts of the committee to make all the arrangements satisfactory. The dinner will be served at 6 P. M. Joseph Healy, 35 Congress St., Boston; Godfrey Morse, 40 Water St., Boston; Arthur L. Ware, 67 Charles St., Boston; John T. Wheelwright, 890 Main St., Cambridge; Barrett Wendell, 9 Linden St., Cambridge...
Although perfectly aware that an individual opinion has no weight with others, I will say that I think the rhetoric course has been interesting and valuable. The instructor has done his best to make the recitations in a dry subject entertaining, and I think he has succeeded...
...University. This imposed necessity limits the choice to a few; graduates, though they have had great experience, are in many cases unwilling to assume the disagreeable position of judge, and thus, frequently, that office must be filled by an undergraduate. This is a point that we wish to make perfectly clear to all, and when this position is understood, men will recognize that it is one of some difficulty. To obviate all trouble and misunderstanding for the future, the Athletic Association will publish shortly a complete set of rules and regulations printed in the form of a small book...
...appropriate the magazines in the reading-room. The Record severely remarks, that "the criminals should be dealt with to the full extent of the law"; but its severity is tempered with the milk of human kindness, as we see by the remark that, "should the suspected party choose to make full restitution and explain his conduct to the officers of the reading-room, he will avoid further exposure, and the chastisement incident upon it." What a comfort it must be to suspect somebody...