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...season for field and river sports opens, the increasing interest manifested in the various college associations for physical culture is most gratifying. The present week, notwithstanding the shiveriness of the temperature, has found the members of the different boating-clubs taking their invigorating pulls on the Charles; and the ball men have again sought Jarvis. This season, however, physical development has another candidate for our interest and favor in the Athletic Association. Last season this association was only in its promising infancy, but now comes before us as an organization ready to do a manly work in supplementing the physical...
...Centennial Committee, Lexington, Mass.THE regular Spring business meeting of the Athletic Association will be held in one of the College halls, on Monday evening next, at half past seven. Due notice of the place will be given, and all members are earnestly requested to attend, as a Constitution and Field Regulations are to be adopted, and preparations made for the June Field Meeting...
Meanwhile, the country had been alarmed, and a message was sent back for reinforcements. Lord Percy came out, via Roxbury, with eighteen hundred troops and two brass field-pieces. When they arrived at Brighton Bridge, they found the planks torn up; but as they had been carefully piled up on the opposite side, it was an easy matter to replace them. But, in connection with this expedition, is an incident more to the credit of Cambridge. A convoy of provisions found greater difficulty in crossing the bridge, and became detached from the main army. An express was sent from...
Another species of the literary butterfly resembles those just mentioned in their nomadic habits; but they are guided not so much by pleasure as by the ambition to be considered learned in the literary field. They fly rapidly from George Eliot to Moliere, from the "Critique of Pure Reason" to the "Heathen Chinee," from Aldrich to Schiller, not because they are dissatisfied with what they taste, but because they seek from the pages of all authors brilliant colors with which to tinge the "winged words" of their conversation...
Leaving our butterfly friends to pursue their happy wanderings in peace, let those who are the "workers" in the literary beehive think for a moment whether they may not profitably take a lesson from these seekers after pleasure and wisdom. Since the plants in the field of letters are almost numberless, no man can hope, in the span of an ordinary life, to find time to study them all thoroughly. Is it always true that "a little learning is a dangerous thing...