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...Descent into Hades, from Virgil's AEneid, Book VI, will be read by Mr. Parker this evening in Sever...
...clip the following suggestive passage from a recent article on book-borrowing as of particular interest to college men. "Only those who love books understand the pang of losing them. A man who handles his book with firm yet tender touch, who delights to take down his pet volumes and smooth out the pages for sheer pleasure of the handling, is the genuine book lover, and by force of his love he will surely be the man who will lend and as surely lose. For it is the nature of this special attachment that the book-lover must share...
...course a methodical person would keep a list of books lent with the borrower's name in line. But, alas ! what generous soul is methodical-the ready tendency to lend a book is proof that a man is ready for all risks. Nor will a well-kept list make our borrowers honest. If a man steal your book, you may recover it if you can prove the theft : but what is to be done with him who always-yes, always-is intending to return your precious volume? Your inquiries are met with ready promises of restoration ; he will bring...
...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. Whole house reserved. Tickets at $1.00 and 75 cents, according to location, are for sale at the University book store...
...that speech has called forth, none are so valuable or of so much importance as the one just published under the direction of a professor in our own university, John Williams White. Although Prof. White does not in any way either in his title or preface intimate that the book he has given us is especially intended for the benefit of Mr. Adams, still the character of the pamphlet is such that it can be taken as nothing else but a quiet reply to the Phi Beta Kappa speech. The pamphlet in question is called "The Question of a Division...