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...exhibition is free and will be kept open until the eleventh of April. Those who are making a study of the fine arts, and, indeed, all who are interested in them, will find Mr. Aldrich's work a source of inspiration and delight...
...Yard was not divided into two parts as it now is by Thayer, University and Weld. Boylston, Weld, Grays, Sever and the Fogg Museum have all been built since then. Gore Hall had just been erected, and was the pride and delight of the generation which built it. The old president's house on Harvard street has since been made a boarding house, as have several other former residences of the faculty members. Most of the College buildings were in the Yard, and Massachusetts was a dormitory, with two entrances, like Holllis and Stoughton. Only half of College House...
There are occasionally discreditable occurrences in the University world,- childish, unworthy acts committed by students, which are best passed unnoticed. If made the object of public comment and censure they achieve the notoriety which is the chief delight of the offenders and unnecessarily injure the good name of the University. But there is a limit in this as in all things. There are some acts of such a nature that the college community suffers, on on the other hand, if it does not openly condemn and disavow them. Such an act was that to which Dean Briggs's letter refers...
...Smollett's word, the great Cham of literature-remained a pervading quality of his great, uncouth, impeded man of genius. He asked an old beggar woman, who accosted him once in the street, who she was, and her reply that she was an old struggler gave the doctor keen delight. Johnson, too, so he rejoined, was an old struggler, and bestowed upon the beggar woman all the money he had in his pockets. And this sense of pain and struggle can never be lost in any true estimate of Samuel Johnson...
...Darkies Delight...