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...students of the University, conveniently arranged for reference. Students, whose names or addresses are omitted in the Catalogue, or incompletely or incorrectly printed, are earnestly requested to send, as soon as possible, a postal card, with the correct information, to "The Harvard Index," Cambridge. As usual, the Index will contain a complete list of the Societies, and a record of the sporting events during the past year. The greatest pains have been taken to secure accuracy in all departments, and it is confidently expected that the book will be one of great interest and value to all students...
...W.BY the kindness of Miss Eliza Susan Quincy, of Boston, the Institute of 1770 has been in receipt of five volumes of records which have been missing for some time. Some of the records are very interesting from their antiquity, and contain autographs of many eminent men who were members of the Society when in College. The volumes are of the following dates: 1770 to 1777, 1781 to 1790, 1791 to 1803, 1803 to 1813, and 1861 to 1864. About fifty years are still missing, and it is to be hoped that they may be recovered...
...King Arthur," and Mr. Furnival's edition of "Le Morte Arthur," by Gautier's Mapier, who wrote it as a conclusion to his account of the adventures of the Holy Graal. This last edition is valuable, because the Preface, and an essay on Arthur, by the late Herbert Coleridge, contain much interesting matter relative to the history of these legends. From Mr. Furnival's Preface are derived most of the facts embodied in this article...
...Saratoga for the following "simple" reasons, which cannot help being "satisfactory to the most ardent friend of Brown or the dullest intellect": first, one of their best men could not row, for reasons not made public, and of course they would not send a crew which did not contain all "their best men"; and secondly, they owe "quite a sum" for last year's expenses, and wisely consider that it is best to incur no new debts until the old ones are paid...
...articles of the other class -those which advocate the novel schemes by which undergraduates may spend their money and derive renown -would become tiresome if it were not for the imaginative ability and inventive power which are displayed in the ideas which they contain...