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President Lowell's official authorization of the regulations for the government of the Regiment marks the establishment of the organization on a firm footing as a recognized University institution. The rules are only those indispensable to the efficiency of a military body, and they will be fully obeyed in both letter and spirit by all who have not a mere dilettante interest in this work. With the prospect excellent that the Legislature will allow the Regiment to use rifles, it seems that students are to have their wish for an opportunity to learn in a live and efficient body...
...Senior Class Day Committee has awarded the contract for caps and gowns to the E. R. Moore Company, of Chicago. This will be the only firm officially recognized by the committee. Men completing their courses at mid-years must be measured at the Co-operative before they leave Cambridge. Such men may be measured now at any time...
...Editor of the Atlantic, who was also a member of the firm of Ticknor and Fields, was a valued and valuable friend to every author of distinction during the middle of the nineteenth century. When they learned of his fondness for the original manuscripts of famous books, they gave him the best they had saved from the printer and furnace-man. Lowell sent him the Second Series of the 'Bigelow Papers,' 'as a trifling acknowledgment of many substantial obligations,' and Holmes inscribed the manuscript of 'The Guardian Angel' as 'A token of kind regard from one of many writers...
...Roundabout Papers,' Sydney Smith by his 'Letter to the Pennsylvanians' who had repudiated a state loan, and George Eliot by 'Agatha.' Charles Reade's first draft of 'The Box Tunnel' is accompanied by two letters, expressing his appreciation of the fact that the Boston firm had 'taken up an author on your own judgment instead of waiting until sixteen old women had waited for some echo and echoed it and called it their verdict.' Emerson is represented by 'The Titmouse' and also by the loose and printer-thumbed sheets of an article hurriedly written in the hours following the arrival...
...play feminine parts in dramatic performances for two successive years. It was feared they would grow effeminate! This is over-estimating the influence or importance of an institution which is not so over-estimated by the participators in it. The college debater is supposed to carry away the firm idea that the methods of point-debating are the methods of public life; he is supposed to assume that his proof by statistics and juggling with masses of facts forms the basis for all conviction. Far from it. He knows and everyone knows who hears him that he is taking part...