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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class dinner will take place on Tuesday evening, February 19th, at the Parker House. Up to the present time but eight or nine men have signed. It is absolutely necessary that men sign at once, as the book will be taken away from Leavitt's Saturday night. It is requested that men intending to go will not put off signing until the last minute...
...regular semi-annual meeting of the St. Paul's Society was held last evening in the room, 17 Grays. Thirty members were present...
...found difficult to fill. No date for a trial of candidates has been settled upon yet, but doubtless it will be in the near future. It is to be hoped that every man who has received any training in music and has acquired some faculty in music will present himself at the trial. As has been intimated, bases are especially needed, but tenors will also be acceptable. The western trip during the Christmas vacation contributed not a little to the reputation of the club, and if hard work in rehearsing will do it, the former standard of the club will...
Professor Wright gave his second lecture yesterday afternoon in Sever 11. The lecture, as the previous one, was well attended, many students who are not taking the Greek courses to which these lectures are introductory being present, as well as others who have no connection with the university but are interested in the subjects treated...
...first absurd mistakes in the interpretation of Homer were very frequent. This was especially so before the Renaissance, but even modern scholars have sometimes soberly offered the most ridiculous theories to explain Homeric difficulties. However, the study of Homer at the present time is more intelligent than ever before, one reason being that our text is a very pure one, better even than the one used by Virgil. The subject matter of the poem, too, has been thoroughly illumined by the united learning of many eminent scholars; mythology, likewise, is better understood, as is also the civilization of the Homeric...