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...brotherhood of the Church, no man's advice was more sought for than that of Father Polhemus. Born at Ithaca, N. Y., he received a sound Catholic education at Cornell University, several years before that institution was founded. He was the originator of the famous Know-Nothing Society, for which ingenious device for promoting the cause of the true Church he received the mitre. It was his hand that applied the torch to the Roman Catholic Convent at Somerville, Mass.,- a deed which has always been considered a master-stroke of Church policy...
There was once a "Hell-Fire Club," but we who call ourselves enlightened have here only the St. Paul's Society, the Society of Christian Brethren, and the Y X. The first and foremost need in Cambridge is some association representing the other side of this morality question. We incline altogether too much in one direction; we are becoming too staid, too learned. Some society which can be called "The Harvard Society for the Propagation of Vice," or "The Harvard Society for the Suppression of Virtue in Undergraduates," ought to be established before we become too wedded...
GLEE CLUB. - President, V. Y. Bowditch; Vice-President, J. Wilby; Secretary, F. L. Wellman; Treasurer, E. H. Harding...
William C. Hall, Buffalo, N. Y.; class '75; S. S.; age, 20; weight, 151 lbs.; height...
...Kellogg, Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y.; class '76; age, 20; weight, 152 lbs.; height...