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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Allow me to say a few words in favor of starting a reading-room. As the project was stated the other night, it seems that the assessment will be but $1.50, and in the case of members of the Harvard Union, $1.00. For this small sum a person will have access to the leading New York and Boston dailies, as well as those from Chicago, San Francisco and the South. Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's, Life, and Puck will be in the list. The London Graphic, Illustrated News and Punch, with possibly a German...
...particulars Harvard may unquestionably claim superiority over all other colleges in America, in her library and in her gymnasium. Yet, strange to say, of no two things do Harvard men seem less appreciative. The gymnasium and library are both used by a large number of men, but not by as many men as ought to use them. We do not think it necessary to enumerate the advantages of either of these institutions, but we do think that a little urging is not out of place. Different though the institutions are in the ends for which they were built, their benefit...
...galleries of the chapel were well filled this morning by people who appreciated the fact that Canon Farrar. would speak a few words to the students. Canon Farrar began by saying that, connected as he was with the two English Universities, the names and institutions of Yale and the other prominent American colleges were familiar to him; that England's scholars and England's divines followed the researches of ours. Standing before such a large body of young men, he felt compelled to say, as an English divine had said before, "I bid you aspire" Seek better things. There...
...gentleman who caused all this excitement was fortunately not severely hurt by his carelessness; but it is safe to say that College House has not been so profoundly stirred, - in both senses of the word, - for many years...
...common report assigned to Mr. Wendell the honor of contributing the first of this series. Such proves to be the case. The Monthly opens with a sketch by the author of the Duchess Emilia, entitled "Draper." We must confess to a little disappointment in reading it, and dared we say it, we would remark that this article is not the feature of the magazine. C. O. Hurd, '86, has a critical article on Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," in which Poe is called to task for want of logic in his story. A strange thing, full of pathos...