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...college precincts, has made a commotion among the alumni scarcely less profound than that occasioned by the action of the overseers in refusing to confer an honorary degree on Governor Butler. The exact meaning of this semi-official utterance was not fully understood at first, but the plain English of it was taken to be that the flowing bowls of punch and other mellowing refreshments which the various classes have been accustomed, more majorum, to provide for their entertainment on commencement day, were no longer to be tolerated. Hence there was a wailing among the festive portion of the alumni...
...appointment of Mr. Leslie Stephen to the chair of English literature at Cambridge leaves little room for anything but congratulation. The Clark professorship is the first, and, so far as we know, the only endowment for the study of English at either of the older universities. There are chairs of Anglo-Saxon, certainly; but the connection between Anglo-Saxon and modern English literature is not very close, and our Anglo-Saxon scholars, for the most part, have very rightly devoted themselves to comparative philology rather than to literary criticism. In Mr. Stephen Cambridge has secured as a professor...
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...Harvard street.For sale. - An English river canoe; a Harvard 54-inch bicycle with English lamp and saddle-bag, and a Baker 12-bore, Damascus barrels, rebounding lock double gun, with leather case. Price for the lot, $100. Apply at 8 Holyoke House...