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...parlor of the Shepard Memorial Church, Cambridge, this evening, April 24th, at 8 o'clock. Prof. C. L. Smith, dean of Harvard College will preside. Mr. James B. Reynolds, who has lately come from Berlin in the interest of the church, will give an account of the progress of the work in Berlin and in this country, and addresses are expected 1 from Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody, Prof. Lyon and others. The meeting will be of a somewhat social character, and a cordial invitation to be present is extended to all interested...
...meeting of the friends of the Harvard Annex was held last week at the house of Miss E. F. Mason, 1 Walnut Street, at which Mrs. Louis Agassiz made a few remarks concerning the progress of the Harvard Annex, its plans and prospects for the future. Mrs. Agassiz in her address told how the Annex was first started ten years ago in four small rooms on Appian Way with a small sum of money, barely sufficient to carry the scheme through four years. There were then but twenty-five students, and these had no books save those in the college...
...unusual number of men who could afford to go elsewhere are boarding at Memorial; and 75 names are still on the waiting list, while in previous years there has never been any waiting list at all after the first of March. These facts point to a year of uncommon progress: and what is the inference? I understand that Mr. Darling is exceedingly unwilling to be re-nominated. But in so serious a matter as this, the college has a right to the services of the men who can serve her best, and Mr. Darling has one qualification which no other...
During the progress of the game on Saturday with the Wollastons, some of the other candidates for the 'varsity played a picked freshman nine on Divinity. Luce, '91, pitched on the college team and Mason, '91, caught. Soule, '93, Brown, '92, Cummings, '91, and Curtis '92, also played. For the freshman. Frothingham (captain), pitched until relieved by Young '92. Sheldon caught, Dexter and Merriam were tried at first base, and Jackson at second. Stevens was tried at both third base and short-stop. Manley, Ingalls and Dibblee also played...
...leading article in the Atlantic for April is a paper on "Some Popular Objections to Civil Service Reform," by Governor Morton. The paper is in two parts, the first of which is given here. Governor Morton's position is clearly suggested in one of his earliest sentences, "political progress is mostly narrative, consisting mainly in the repeal of bad laws or in the abolition of bad customs." Some of the objections are taken from the records of congress, others from the newspaper and street. None of them stand up before Mr. Morton's vigorous blows...