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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FRIENDS AND NEW. Sarah O. Jewett. Boston: Houghton. Osgood...
...What is a proctor?" asks the new-comer...
...last Wednesday, the day appointed for the beginning of Chinese instruction at Harvard, no applicants made their appearance, and the first recitation was indefinitely postponed. This is owing to the fact that the language which our new professor is sent here to teach is the Mandarin, the language of Chinese nobles and officials, and the vehicle of the literature of the country. Mandarin is of no use to the few Harvard students who wish to study Chinese, since they would come in contact only with the Cantonese, who speak a language so different from the Mandarin that our professor himself...
...Regulations contain some changes which all undergraduates may profitably note. The most important changes are those that relate to honors, deficiency in scholarship, and penalties. Several sections taken from the "Scales of Scholarship" and the "Degree of Bachelor of Arts" form, with the system of "Honorable Mention," a new subject-division, "Honors at Graduation, and other Distinctions...
BOSTON THEATRE.- To-night "Fatinitza" will be given for the last time, and to-morrow afternoon and evening "Pinafore." Next Monday, Bartley Campbell's new play, "My Partner," will be produced with the company and scenery from the Union Square Theatre. Messrs. Aldrich and Parsloe are in the cast...