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...Harvard Opera Association is to be run this season along the same lines as last, when it proved so successful in giving an opportunity to hear the best opera at reasonable prices. The chairman for this season, who was appointed last year, has not returned to College, and a confusion and loss of records and accounts has resulted, which will cause a delay of about a week. Further announcements will be made in these columns...
...Wednesday evening meetings, held at 7 o'clock, are very informal. Shortened Evening Prayer is said. Then follows a short talk by a man especially versed in his subject. Informal discussion, usually along the general subject of the speaker's topic, closes the meeting. Three-quarters of an hour, to an hour is the time ordinarily taken by these meetings...
...university we have established a new system of honor courses to go into operation at the beginning of this academic year. These courses are given in every department of the university and have been conceived with the purpose of affording our students an opportunity of working along lines in which they are particularly interested and can acquit themselves with credit and possible distinction...
...kind of thing that a man writes as a "part," perhaps; but it is thoroughly funny and sincere. Of the other stories "There Was One," though not as bad as its title, is a study in anti-climax which hardly entertains us enough as we go along to make us forgive the hoax. "Chapters from a Summer Romance" is conventional in detail and feeble in situation: in the descriptive parts "scarcely a sound broke the quiet," although a hermit thrush "could be heard in the distance; in the narrative part we have, in addition to some very unreal dialogue...
...universities present a different condition. Neither shows so large an increase in the number of students over last year or the last few years. Yale is counting upon the customary 3300, and Harvard's enrollment is estimated at approximately the usual 5000. But at both institutions changes and progress along other lines are to be found. The character of the student body of Harvard becomes more representative of the whole country with each year. No longer do its undergraduates come so largely from a group of selected schools, and the increase of student sources widens the field of the University...