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...Winter Meetings have been a great success, - greater than at any time during our memory. There was a great deal of rivalry and spirit displayed at all three meetings; and it is safe to say that what-usually is deemed a bore by the blase upperclassman who "has seen it all before," was interesting and exciting even to his wearied palate. The last meeting especially, was contrary to expectation in many respects, the best of all three; the flying rings, horizontal bar and tumbling were all so excellent as to call forth the excited applause of the oldest spectator...
...fire from box 78 at 10.50 last night brought more than half the men in college to Fresh Pond. Those who took the two mile run over fields, fences, ditches, and barbed wire, were well repaid for their trouble by one of the grandest sights that has been seen around Cambridge for a long time. For over an hour four large ice houses were a mass of flames. There was no ice in the buildings, but there was a quantity of sawdust which added to the brilliancy of the conflagration...
...very interesting lecture was given on the 4th inst. by Dr. Phillips Brooks of Trinity Church to the students of Phillips Academy, Exeter, a school intimately connected with Harvard, and of which an ancestor of Dr. Brooks was the founder. We have only seen a partial report of the lecture in one paper, the Journal, but that is more than sufficient to create a strong desire either that the whole lecture should be published, or that the Reverend lecturer, who is so warmly esteemed and honored at Harvard, would deliver either the same, or a similar one, before the undergraduates...
...seen that while Harvard offers most of the courses given in this school of political science, she does it with a different aim, to give a general scholastic training. But it seems as if Harvard could, without much difficulty, make out a system of instruction by selecting and arranging courses from the college and the Law School which should cover the work done in a school like that at Columbia...
...upon" them only in print. The motive for thus placing these benches on the floor is indeed praiseworthy; but the result is very sad, for these benches and their occupants obstruct the view of nearly half the audience. The wrestling of last Saturday, for example, could not be seen by those seated in the south end of the gymnasium, except from a few of the highest seats...