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...Harvard University Bulletin for May, edited by Mr. Justin Winsor, has appeared. It is of great interest as giving in a compact form information concerning the work of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers. A number of bequests are announced, notably that by Mrs. Ellen Gurney of $75,000 and that by Dr. Asa Gray of the copyrights of his books. Mention is made of the long and useful service of Professor Lovering, whose resignation is to take effect September 1, 1888. Besides the reports the Bulletin contains additions to the Harvard necrology as published in the Quinquennial Catalogue...
...were well attended and very successful. The play was entitled "Siegfried the Slugger; or, The Gottohammeron," and was purported to have been written by "Richard Whanger." The most taking things were a solo by Gunther, a trio sung by Gunther, Hagen and Siegfried, by which they bind their compact, and choruses of combined girls and warriors in the first act; a solo by Gunther with a chorus of warriors. and trio by the Rhine nymphs in the second act. The nymphs were very good in their singing and dancing and were enthusiastically applauded. As an encore their doubles in costumes...
...helped or harmed by the publication of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The ideal journal's statements of fact will never be colored by prejudice, passion, bombast or humor (so called,) but will be rigorously exact, and will be expressed in simple, clear, compact and agreeable English. Its comments on current events will be animated by a steady purpose to say the right thing in the right way at the right moment, and will be characterized by accurate and independent thought, sound sense, good English and good manners. It will never treat opponents with discourtesy...
...difference between Yale and Harvard is well brought out in their catalogue. Yale is still an old-fashioned college, overshadowed to some extent by Congregationalism, compact and a strong force for education. It is a college from which men are sent forth with the stamp of their training impressed upon them. Harvard is broad and progressive, but under its present administration a certain amount of educational force must be lost. A strong scholarly nature will get rounded and polished by a Harvard education, while at Yale he may be in danger of becoming narrowed in his sphere of activity...
Wright and Ditson have issued a compact and neat edition of Walter Camp's foot-ball rules for this year...