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JOHN ENDICOTT.BOYLSTON CHEMICAL CLUB.- Meeting at 7.30 p. m. in Boylston Lecture Hall. Prof. H. B. Hill will speak on "Arsenic in Wall Papers." Business meeting after the lecture in 8 Boylston...
...Myer, '90, are good men. Holden has signified his intention of running in the 100 and 220-yards in the spring. In the pole vault Leavitt, '89, may develop into a possible winner; Wheelwright, '90, and Mason, '91 are fair men. Of course it is too early to speak with any certainty in regard to the men from '91, but so far '91 has showed up well in athletics and gives promise of being the most athletic class in college, save the class of '88. A large number of freshmen are trying for the team of whom Crosby, Briggs, Burnett...
...Historia natural is were close companions in all early academic courses, and they have remained associates in some American colleges down to the present day. (9) The absence of Latin from the entire plan of study is noticeable, and is explained by the fact that students were required to speak Latin in the class-rooms and in the college yard. Latin was the main requirement for admission to Harvard College. The rule was: "When a scholar is able to understand Tully (Cicero) or such like classical Latin author extempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose...
INDIAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION.The Cambridge Indian Rights Association will hold its annual meeting in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, Jan, 4. Mr. J. B. Harrison, agent of the Indian Rights Association of Philadelphia. will speak on the present condition of the Indians located on twenty different reservations recently visited by him. Professor James B. Thayer will read a paper on the "Dawes Severalty Bill." The meeting is open to all members of the University and the public...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- While the complaints about the library are flowing in I would like to speak about the ventilation of the lecture room in Boylston Hall. At the weekly meetings in Chemistry A there are between three and four hundred men inhaling the same close atmosphere. What windows there are in the rooms are always closed, and the only means for the entrance of fresh air is by means of the main door. In a chemical laboratory, where the room is necessarily full of suffocating fumes, great care should be taken to have good fresh air. If some attention...