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...Philadelphia. It has at present three buildings, a lecture hall, a dormitory and a gymnasium, while still another dormitory is still to be erected. The site of the college is a high hill in the midst of that picturesque and undulating country near Bryn Mawr which is so deservedly popular among Philadelphians as a summer resort...
...philosophical department would extend its influence and inform the students far better of its work if a pamphlet describing the courses could be published. Several of the departments notably the more popular, have shown commendable interest in this particular in past years and their success speaks well for the custom. At present a student can only gain a more intimate knowledge of the philosophical course at the expense of considerable time and trouble. A pamphlet similar to that issued by the Natural History department, for example, could not fail to interest many in a department which is at present somewhat...
...clubs in college are about to furnish the students with interesting courses of lectures in their respective branches, we look in vain to find desirable activity among the members of the Philosophical Club. The excellence of this department in the college curriculum is well known, and the courses fairly popular; so a course of lectures on modern thought would instruct a large number of appreciative and intelligent students. Let us hope that a representative of some school of philosophy, not favored by our professors may be induced to come to Cambridge...
...Popular Science Monthly gives cigarette, cigar, pipe, Turkish pipe as the order in which the various methods of smoking are harmful...
...tedious mid-years the students have been "holding hard," to use a familiar figure, while the faculty got ready for this fresh "heave." That the vigor of the latter has been increased by the respite, is shown in the unusually attractive Calendar for the coming week. The more popular announcements include one of the Chaucer Readings by Prof. Briggs, so much enjoyed last year: Mr. O. W. Holmes' lecture on "The Law"; Dr. Farnham's "Health and Strength"; Prof. Hill's Lecture to freshmen on "English Authors," besides the Harvard Union debate. Among the more advanced class of subjects...