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...handsome, newly fitted up dining room for one more clubs of twelve or fifteen, at Mrs. Brewer's, No. 1 Brattle square...
...Harvard man is really not so very aristocratic after all. At heart he is pretty much of a democrat. It is a common remark in the college that there a man is estimated at his real worth. and all pretense and conceit is covered with ridicule. During the past fifteen years a wonderful change in the undergraduate life has taken place. The sleep of the Cambridge citizen was once broken by the uproarious singing of students in the streets. Now it is very rare to hear any boisterous midnight singing - such out-door singing as there is being confined...
...audience of seventy persons, including, unfortunately, no more than fifteen students, assembled last evening to listen to the second of the series of Sever Hall concerts. The Mueller-Campanari Quartette far outdid their first effort, both in the choice of programme and in the execution of the music. Noticeably their strongest point lies in the harmonious quality of their tone, whereby all delicate ensemble passages become doubly pleasing. The second and fourth movements of the Mozart Quartette seemed to be most pleasing to the audience...
...EDITOR OF THE N. Y. EVENING POST - Sir : The other day my son, aged about fifteen years, asked me the meaning of a certain objectionable passage in a play of Shakespeare, which, he said, he was instructed by his school teacher to analyze. Surprised that the boy should have such subject matter given for his lucubrations at so early an age, I made inquiry at the school, at the same time expressing my desire that he should receive other subject-matter for his studies in composition. I was informed in reply that, as the boy was understood to be preparing...
Twelve rooms in the east quadrangle of Hampton Court, the Royal Palace, fifteen miles from London, were damaged to the extent of $150,000 by fire yesterday...