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LATIN READINGS.Latin readings will be continued in Sever 11, at 7.30 o'clock on the Monday evenings of April 26, May 3 and 6. On April 26 and May 3 Prof. Greenough will read the Phormio of Terence. On May 6, Mr. Preble will read Juvenal's Tenth Satire...
...Semper read a very excellent paper on Mrs. Browning in English VIII yesterday, which gained a hearty round of applause from his listeners...
Last evening Mr. Samuel Eliot read an essay on "The Relation of Forests to Rain-fall and Water Supply," before an appreciative audience in Sever 3. Mr. Eliot followed out a line of argument which was based upon the facts of observation rather than on a plausible theory. The lands of the Mediterranean were once called the gardens of the world, but to day these once fertile fields have become arid deserts. What has been the cause of the great climatic change, whereby these countries have lost their former power to produce large crops, and no longer are able...
Lack of space in these columns has prevented our mentioning before to-day the current number of the Lampoon. The present Lampoon editors have so evidently abandoned the sort of humor, both in illustration and reading matter, that used to appear in their columns, that we find ourselves wondering if the change is for the better, if the editors have shown good taste in departing from the peculiar college humor of former volumes and resorting to humor that is not at all collegiate and is certainly less dignified. Such things as "Spageltim's Revenge," "A Malayan Tragedy," "Bad Ballads...
Saturday evening Prof. Bocher read Papa Pirichon at Prof. Child's residence, Cambridge, in behalf of the Indians...