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...VOCAL entertainment of promising excellence is announced for next Thursday evening, March 4 at the Cambridge Conservatory of Music on Lee St. It is to consist of Readings by George Lyon, Jr., '77, who is well known as a reader among the literary circles of Cambridge, and has acquired a reputation by public readings elsewhere; he is to be assisted by C. H. Kloman in one selection from Shakspere. The vocal music is by D. M. Babcock, '77, and among others he is to give "King Macbeth," "Friend of the Brave," and an "Aria from Don Giovanni...
...best merely that of a coat of paint. Nor is it merely a case of scratch a Russian and find a Tartar, for the oil of the paint corrodes and spoils the bourgeois beneath. No bourgeois needs to be told that he is as good as the next man and a good deal better, and though as poeta nascitur, etc., a man can't make himself a gentleman, he can become the pinchbeck imitation thereof, and if he cannot attract notice in one way he can in another. No one would bear any ill-will to a man who snorted...
...find to be the convenient, rather than what we know to be the healthful course. Any one observing the number of fellows hastening back from Memorial Hall between ten or fifteen minutes after the breakfast hour begins, must come to one of two conclusions, - either that there is next to nothing fit to eat on the bounteously spread tables in the grand Alumni Dining Hall, or else that the students are guilty of the bad habit of Americans of rapid eating. Of course the former of these two hypotheses cannot be thought true even for a moment; hence we must...
...probability that things will be mixed. There is little danger of a Harvard student's being taken for a Union man, except by those who were "raised" in the immediate vicinity of - we believe it is Schenectady? - but the Union students may expect to be often taken for Cantabs, next summer, and must cultivate their modesty for the occasion...
...Bratt next mysteriously remarks, "ne plus ultra." This quotation, taken from the ancient Druid philosopher, the Venerable Adam Bede, has puzzled not a few of Mr. Bratt's ardent admirers, mostly those, however, of finite and unphilosophical minds...