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Seldom has a series of lectures been given at Harvard more entertaining or instructive than Professor Cooke's lectures on the "Ice Fields of Switzerland." The effect of the lecturer's remarkable powers of vivid description is heightened by the use of a powerful stereopticon. View after view is projected on the screen, and it is difficult not to feel that one is actually transported to the land of mountains and glaciers. We would remind the students that the lectures begin promptly at seven o'clock, not at half past, as some seem to have got the impression...
...victories on the Thames last spring are having due effect in the greatly increased interest in rowing. No other branch of athletics reaches so many men, - between 60 and 70 men are now rowing regularly every day, - and no other one athletic sport is doing as much good in improving the general physical average among our college men. But in spite of all this, the University Boat Club is several thousand dollars in debt, with no apparent prospect of diminishing this debt during the present year. There will be a general canvass of the college during the next few weeks...
This parting utterance from the President will not be without its effect. In fact, there is a growing tendency here to coincide with his views. This is especially the case when it is considered that after all the college is not getting along so badly. To be sure the present freshman class is unduly small, but that has been accounted for in more ways than one. In general, then, it may be said Yale is prosperous, turns out creditable graduates, and maintains its usual high standard...
...natural effect has been to make our professors and many of the trustees look upon some permanent student committee as a growing necessity, and we now have promise that...
...soloist was Mr. Alex. Lambert, of whom little seems to be definitely known. The concerto did not receive quite the treatment that it deserved. The performance was, on the whole, sufficiently brilliant, but the effect was marred by occasional carelessness, while all attempts at forte playing resulted in a surprising harshness of tone...