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...19.At a meeting of Harvard Union the following-named officers were elected for the ensuing year : President, W. C. Wait, '82; vice-president, H. Putnam, '83; secretary, E. A. Hibbard, '84; treasurer, E. S. Middleton...
...Harvard Union last evening. Men seemed diffident about accepting the offices, the assignment of which was the object of the meeting. W. C. Wait, '82, was re-elected president for the ensuing year; H. Putnam, '83, vice-president; E. A. Hibbard, '84, was chosen secretary, and E. S. Middleton, '85, treasurer. The chair postponed the appointment of the executive committee until the next meeting. The reading room committee was re-elected. The following is the treasurer's report; Dr. - Balance, $9.85; received from Harv. Leg., .85; assessments, $15.50; from reading room committee, $134; total, $160.20. Cr. - To janitor, $7; keys...
...Patten's essay on "The Character of Cicero, as presented by Middleton, Mommsen, Abcken, Bruckner, and Forsyth" showed careful study. The subject involved a large amount of reading, and this reading Mr. Patten had done faithfully. The essay was not strikingly original or interesting, but it was clear and substantial. It made no attempt at elaboration, and its style was excellent...
...whole vast assembly of boys rise, and, led by organ and choristers, make the arches ring with anthems, preserved in the school from the time of the old monks. But much of our interest in the school lies in the illustrious names on its roll (names such as Bishop Middleton and Bishop Stillingfleet, Camden, Markland, and Richardson; the first of England's novelists) and in stories of Charles Lamb and Coleridge, "the inspired charity-boy," pacing the cloisters together, or Leigh Hunt withstanding some "little tyrant," in spite of blows and cuffs so painful to his sensitive nature. These last...