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Last evening Prof. Charles S. Smith finished his interesting course of lectures on Icelandic Saga, by treating of Old Norse Poetry. The interest of the lecture lay chiefly in the recitation of portions of poems both in the original and translated; but a summary of some of the poems may be interesting as showing their character...
...Prof. Smith introduced his lecture last night by a pretty description of Monad-nock and the surrounding country, the various parts of which reflect the images of the lives and characters of Art, Egil, and Njal...
...Taylor cottage, being the first of the new dormitories, and so named in recognition of the efforts of Prof. John Phelps Taylor in behalf of re-endowment, is now roofed over and will be ready for occupancy in the spring. It is being built by funds given by Mr. Melville C. Day, a prominent New York lawyer, who was graduated from Andover in 1858. Plans have been accepted for the second of these new dormitories, to be built by the subscriptions of the citizens of Andover, and which is to be known as the Andover Cottage. Work on this building...
...first of next year Houghton and Mifflin will publish the lectures on Philosophy that Prof. Royce delivered last winter...
...Prof. Davis lectured to the Boston Natural History Society, Wednesday evening, on "The Catskill delta in the post-glacial Hudson Estuary...