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SENIORS are reminded that the first instalment of the Class Fund was due a month ago. Those who have not yet paid are earnestly requested to do so at once...
...Advertiser, in its notice of the Boylston Prize speaking, said that there was a marked improvement over the standard of several years ago. It is doubtful whether this statement is correct. Before the adoption of the preliminary system there was a much greater number of candidates than now, and the poor speakers, having a large majority, made the whole performance appear to be of an ordinary kind. At any rate, the present standard is not creditable, and ought to be raised...
SOME time ago a few letters from a Chinese gentleman, residing in Cambridge, to a friend in China, accidentally fell into my hands. Anticipating some curious comments on our civilization, I immediately elected all the Chinese courses given at Harvard, and after a time I was enabled to translate the valuable find. I was not deceived in my anticipations, for I think the interest attached to the letters well repays all my trouble. I send you herewith some extracts from them; if they are acceptable, I shall send them from time to time. It is to be observed that...
GAIETY THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2. The rest of this week, Milton Nobles in "A Man of the People," a sensational piece which affords considerable scope for acting. Next week, the charming operettas, "Ages Ago" and "Charity begins at Home," which have been such an attraction at the Bijou Opera House in New York, are promised...
BESIDES the few changes in electives mentioned in the Crimson a few weeks ago, and the extension of Mr. Hoague's course, spoken of by the Advocate last week, there is but one important change in the elective pamphlet. This is that hereafter men must definitively settle by November 1 what courses they intend to pursue as electives during the year. No extra hours beyond one (which is allowed to provide for the difficulty of choosing exactly twelve or exactly fourteen hours) will be counted on the general scale as hours of electives, unless they are put down...