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...magazine, contains an article on Harvard, written by Mr. H. W. Winkley, a graduate of the class of '81. While an article of this sort written for the information of those who are utterly unacquainted with the college is always more or less in the nature of a guide book, still it is interesting to note at times what impressions a graduate has formed of his own college and also what things strike him as peculiarly characteristic of the college and worthy of mention...
...Winkley introduces his article by calling attention to the important bearing of the dormitory system on the social life of the college and proceeds to give a "guide-book" description of some of the principal dormitories. In connection with the matter of the expense of living at Harvard Mr. Winkley says: "Harvard has often been called an expensive place, and not unjustly so, in comparison with other colleges, among the leading items of expense being room-rent. Few rooms rent for less than sixty dollars a year, and in the better class of buildings, like Matthews, Weld, or Holyoke...
...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...
...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...
...artificial scale and to assign a general mark much higher than could strictly be given to it were it marked in detail, or else to apply some system of equalization, such as raising all the marks in his course by a certain fraction of the mark assigned to each book, or by a certain per cent of the maximum...