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...Cable, the distinguished novelist, will give one reading from his own works in Lyceum Hall, Cambridge, on Wednesday Evening, Dec. 12, at 8 o'clock. Wholt house reserved. Tickets at $1.00 and 75 cents, according to location, are for sale at the University book store...
...long expected Index is now in press and will be issued next Monday. Judging from the advance sheets which have been placed in our hands, we think the book compares favorably with the former volumes, both in appearance and in subject matter. It is bound in a neat paper cover with the title printed in crimson ink. The contents are of necessity much the same from year to year. This volume however contains several important changes and additions. For the first time the Total Abstinence League appears with a list of officers and members. The Philological Society disappears...
...latter part of the book is taken up with a list of the college athletic associations, among which the Polo Club appears for the first time, and with the customary athletic records. These have been carefully prepared and important additions have been made in giving the best Harvard records and the measurements of the '86 crews, besides the measurements of the university crew. We should prefer to see the athletic associations given preference in point of space to the Harvard Clubs which are not very important to the students and could well be placed at the end of the book...
...Cable, the distinguished novelist, will give one reading from his own works in Lyceum Hail, Cambridge, on Wednesday Evening, Dec. 12, at 8 o'clock. Whole house reserved. Tickets at $1.00 and 75 cents, according to location, are for sale at the University book store...
Prof. White, in his preface, explains the contents of the book and gives a history of the events which gave rise to the controversy. Although Prof. Hofmann's address is mainly taken up with a question which touches but lightly upon the topic of most interest to us at present, in conclusion he discusses the principal subject-"that of admitting students to the Universities without the literary training which a German Gymnasium affords, and especially without a knowledge of Greek...