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...editorial on the "Bloody Monday" question in the current number will enlist the majority of undergraduates on its side; it presents the arguments in favor of the rush with keen clearness and force. A "Specimen Lecture--English 8," and "Heart to Heart Talks with Freshmen" are the best of the other prose articles in the number. The full page drawing by Welldon is remarkably well drawn; none of the other drawings are noteworthy...
Silver, Burdett & Company are soon to publish a book by Mr. C. T. Copeland and H. M. Rideout '99, called "Freshman English and Theme Correcting in Harvard College." It is not to be a text book, but an aid to teachers, and for this purpose it will contain specimen themes by students, with the instructor's corrections. The book is expected to be especially valuable as an exposition of the work done in English...
...most important addition to the collection at the Mineralogical Museum in a perfect iron meteorite from Colorado. It is very beautiful in shape and is a very rare specimen, weighing about one hundred and ten pounds...
...will be a large folio size, 21 by 14 inches, and it is proposed to issue it in five sections, each to contain about twenty plates, with brief explanatory letter-press. The price will be five dollars for each part. A prospectus, containing a table of contents and some specimen illustrations, in form somewhat less than half the size of the proposed work, will be sent to any one who will make request for it to Mr. W. F. Harris, 8 Mercer Circle, Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Harris is the treasurer of the work and it is to him that subscriptions...
...pointed; and they, like the longer stories, deal mostly with College affairs--a feature acceptable enough if not overdone. In many cases an episode relies for much of its humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails for this reason, and wanders along, overshooting the mark, when a little more skill would have made it entertaining. The maudlin sketch, "At the Freshman Dinner" is live enough to read with more interest...