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...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "The Application of the Experimental Method to Certain Problems in Zoology." Messrs. Congdon, Herms, and Pearse. Zoological Museum, Room 4, Fourth Floor...
...behind Pierce Hall. The expense of constriction and maintenance might be somewhat greater than if it were placed in the Stadium, but this should be more than compensated by its accessibility. In the Stadium the rink would be used merely for hockey, even although games were prohibited except between certain hours; but on Holmes Field the less energetically inclined would be able to employ a few spare moments to good advantage in the enjoyment of plain or fancy skating. In any case certain hours would be reserved for scrub hockey games, and such teams will not be likely to object...
...University teas or similar functions will, on crossing the threshold of Phillips Brooks House, feel immediately the warmth of comradeship with the members of the Faculty, or any particular professor who is more personally interested in the undergraduates as men than as students. We are certain, nevertheless, that such opportunities are often given, and that the President's reception next week is one which should appeal to a goodly number...
Professor Peabody spoke of a certain reserve and dignity which surrounded Phillips Brooks, so that no man felt that he could call him an intimate friend, and yet, in his sermons, he gave his whole being to his hearers. No other man's sermons were ever wrought with such thought and care. They all went through three stages, the note-book, the compendium stage, and then the finished arrangement, so that his intellectual preparation and logic made a track, as it were, for the rush of his rhetoric. Complete as was his plan and outline, he spoke with such spontaneity...
Whether by accident or intention, the Harvard Advocate makes Incident, as distinct from Episode, the special feature of its issue of December 5. The Incident may be compared to a detail in a design, capable of being sketched apart, but with a certain incompleteness; the Episode is rather a design in a series--a thing necessary to the perfection of the whole, and yet complete in itself even when detached. In at least three out of the four contributions to the current Advocate, in which Incident is the motive, the suspended interest is admirably maintained. Mr. Schenck's "Paper Chase...