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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with regret that we observe the falling off in the attendance at the evening readings given by our professors in the various departments of literature. Only a short time since, the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth cantos of the Inferno were read to an audience of five students and four outsiders; while a few weeks before a multitudinous concourse of three - including a library clerk - assembled to hear a reading from Faust. It may be that we are now having a surfeit of lectures and readings; but it certainly seems that those who fail to attend our evening...
...fault, and no man had more fully than he the profound respect and warm affection of all within the circle of his acquaintance and the sphere of his influence. The community can ill spare so conspicuous an example of conscientious fidelity in so many and so various trusts; and with his successive classes of pupils and his numerous friends he leaves a memory which will be a lifelong inspiration and incentive in every worthy endeavor and honorable career...
...crew were out on the river, and since then have been able, except on Wednesday last, to get daily practice. The eight, as first made up, was as follows: Harriman 1, W. Le Moyne 2, Legate 3, Smith 4, Brigham 5, Schwartz 6, Jacobs 7, and Bancroft 8. Various changes have since been made in the forward part of the boat. From the men named, and from F. Le Moyne, Crocker, and Littauer, the crew will be selected. The other candidates have been distributed among the Freshman and Club crews...
...Nearly $1,000,000 was given to the various colleges during the past year...
...professed in the Club seemed doubled by the resolution evident in all to make the Art Club worthy of the name it bears. At his suggestion it was decided that the fortnightly meetings should be converzationi of an entirely social nature, at which Art in any one of its various branches should be discussed. This plan was most successfully carried out at the subsequent meeting, last Thursday, when Modern Pottery and Porcelain formed the subject of conversation, some very good specimens having been lent for the occasion...