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Members of Division A in Political Economy I will read for Monday, Feb. 25, chapter 1 of Book I of Cairnes' "Leading Principles of Political Economy." Members of Division B will read chapter 1 of Hadley's "Railroad Transportation." Division A will meet in U. 16, and Division R in U. 4, as directed in posted notices. There will be sections meeting at 9 and 10 o'clock as before...
...Historical Society met last evening in 28 Weld. The subject for discussion was "The social effect of Negro suffrage." Mr. C. C. McGehee, jr., read a paper on the above subject, giving the Southern view of it. He argued for the disfranchisement of the Negro, for the present, as the most immediate practical remedy looking towards the eradication of sectionalism. General Armstrong was present and entered into the discussion, advancing some most interesting opinions on the subject...
...influential position. They are upon a variety of topics, but all are important and equally interesting. The attitude of college men towards their papers and its effect upon college journalism, which is touched upon in the first editorial, is not especially original in thought, but all college men can read it with advantage. The blow struck at tutors and coaching is timely; and the vigorous treatment of the remarks of a gentlemen at the recent Dartmouth dinner will, we are sure, be read with considerable satisfaction by men at Cambridge...
...charge of the vesper service last evening. The service was opened with the anthem "Let all those Rejoice," from the oratorio of "Abraham" by Molique. After the responsive service, the soloist of the evening, Mr. C. F. Webber, of Boston, sang Mendelssohn's "Then shall the Righteous." Dr. Brooks read a portion of the fifth chapter of John, and selected as the text for his remarks Christ's question to the impotent man: "Wilt thou be made whole?" He emphasized the fact that there is a spiritual side to every man's nature; that it is not a special gift...
...Edward Lincoln Jellinek read his Bowdoin Prize Dissertation last evening in Sever 5. His theme was "Burke's Views on the Proper Relations between England and Ireland," and he showed such clearness of expression and breadth of view as could only have been acquired by deep thought and a complete mastery of the subject...