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...second half year begins Monday with many bright things in view. During the tedious mid-years the students have been "holding hard," to use a familiar figure, while the faculty got ready for this fresh "heave." That the vigor of the latter has been increased by the respite, is shown in the unusually attractive Calendar for the coming week. The more popular announcements include one of the Chaucer Readings by Prof. Briggs, so much enjoyed last year: Mr. O. W. Holmes' lecture on "The Law"; Dr. Farnham's "Health and Strength"; Prof. Hill's Lecture to freshmen on "English Authors...
...will contain twenty-three articles and poems by graduate editors. The leading article is by W. G. Peckham, Esq., '67, of New York, the founder of the paper. Dr. A. B. Hart has contributed a very entertaining humorous piece. The nine other light articles and poems are also very bright. The story of the change of the Harvard color from magenta to crimson, in 1875, is told in a witty poem of three columns in length. The more serious prose articles and verse are excellent...
...heart consisted of a "right and left heart" joined into one, by a kind of muscular wall. This wall was sometimes lacking from birth, and owing to the imperfect circulation, people thus afficted turned a bright blue; this disease, cyanosis, is very apt to kill the sufferer in a few years. Having located the heart the lecturer proceeded to show how the blood going from the right auricle was passed into the ventricle and then sent travelling over the body. But ignorance of medical terms prevents our describing it at length...
Scholarships have been assigned to freshmen as follows: Bright scholarships, Giese, F. Green, Holliday, Hunter, Leavitt; Bigelow scholarships, W. H. Warren, Winkler; Kirkland scholarship, Hooper...
...proper study of mankind is man." The writer throughout is bright, entertaining, and incisive. But the immoderate application of well-known aphorisms detracts seriously from the freshness and value of the thought. The central idea of the paper is "The present lies four-square, and the sides are self, civilization, raw material, and fellow...