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PROFESSOR E. S. MORSE, of Salem, delivered the annual lecture before the Harvard Natural History Society, on Thursday evening. The subject of his entertaining essay, the "Evolution of Organic Beings," was handled in a masterly way. To the critical student his evidence and details were of great interest, while to the less scientific his graphic illustrations of birds, reptiles, and mollusks awakened pleasant associations of their earliest ancestors. Professor Morse is a wonderful artist, and the resemblance between an embryo robin and turtle, as drawn on the blackboard, called forth loud applause. The attendance was large, and the only drawback...
...annual lecture before the Harvard Natural History Society will be delivered in the lecture-room of Boylston Hall, on the evening of the 20th inst, by Professor Edward S. Morse of Salem. Professor Morse is an interesting lecturer, as well as a learned naturalist. The revival of these lectures, which for the past few years have been omitted, is a subject of rejoicing to all lovers of natural science...
...possibly be admitted. The necessary buildings have been erected, but there is very little money left to carry on the institution; it is to be earnestly hoped that many States will adopt the proposition to provide for the maintenance of two pupils by a grant of $ 5000 or an annual subscription of $ 350. The school is to be open from July 7 to August 29. The corps of instructors numbers about a dozen...
...rude jests of some of our callers; but my admiration for my popular chum was so great that I would have submitted to anything for his sake. But why that chum should have chosen to give a punch in No. 43 on the very night before our hardest Annual I never could tell. I suppose it was because of the peculiar inappropriateness of the time. But give a punch he did, and that, as near as I could afterwards ascertain, compounded of the most dissimilar and deadly ingredients. The horrors of that night I shall never know, for I passed...
...first number of this year's Magenta it was asserted, in an article descriptive of last Class-Day, that the interest in Class-Day was slowly dying out, and that something must be done to renew it, or we should soon see the annual festival collapse altogether. Now, it behooveth us to devise at once some means of averting any such collapse; for it would be a misfortune indeed to be deprived of our only gala-day, or to have it still observed, but with its glory passed and its continuance a bore...