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...Yale Book, on the plan of the Harvard Book, published two years ago, is soon to appear...
...desire to protest against the custom of marking up the Library books. I very seldom take out a book but I find it defaced by some would-be commentator; such highly aesthetic notes as "Good," "Admirable," "This is fine," are met on almost every page. The only historical precedent for such action I can think of is the appropriation by the schoolmen of the manuscripts of the classical authors for their own worthless scribblings. But then the schoolmen lived at a time when parchment was scarce and dear; now, when stationery is so cheap, the impropriety of any such mediaeval...
EVENING READINGS. The course for this year will be held at 7 1/2 o'clock in Harvard Hall, up stairs, and as follows: Fridays, Prof. Everett, Lucretius; Wednesdays, Prof. Palmer, The Odyssey from Book 19; Thursdays, Prof. Bocher, Moliere...
...editors of the Advocate have just published a volume of poetry, selected from their columns of the last ten years, and we have to congratulate our contemporary on having produced a most admirable book. The selections amount to a little over a hundred pieces, consisting of songs, descriptive pieces, translations, and sonnets, some humorous and some serious, but all relating more or less directly to undergraduate life. It is a book of which every Harvard man may well be proud. That such good poetry has been written by our undergraduates must be a source of pleasure to every...
...read than any others in the collection. He had, perhaps, more poetic talent than any of the other contributors, and his sad fate, too, has led many to be interested in whatever he has written. Some of his poems are here, we believe, for the first time published in book form...