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The facts are these: On Friday evening, the 2d inst., a party of about forty Freshmen visited the Boston Museum to see Evangeline. The witticisms of that extravaganza are only too familiar to the minds of theatre-goers, and they naturally succeeded in eliciting only groans from the ranks of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

CERTAINLY it is annoying to have proctors in squeaking boots walking up and down an examination-room. It is annoying, also, to have two proctors stand behind you and converse in tones so exquisitely modulated that you catch just half their conversation. But, great as these annoyances are, there is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

But it is by no means an easy thing to sit naturally and becomingly for one's likeness. When the photographer has arranged you to his satisfaction, and your head is pushed up against the iron rest, and you are trying to look interested in a nail on the wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHOTOGRAPHS. | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

Bancroft, at stroke, is inclined to use too much swing; but his shoulders and arms are much the best. Jacobs's stroke lacks vigor, particularly on the catch. He drops his hands badly at the end of the recover, - a fault which leads to a serious trick of clipping, when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREW. | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

At the Medical and Dental Schools the janitors will "advise students in the selection of boarding-places," and at the Dental School "the student's expenses may be reduced, in accordance with his means, to the standard which prevails in other cities." The Faculty of the Scientific School do not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEOPHOGEN-ISMS AT HOME. | 2/9/1877 | See Source »