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...Tuesday, March 2, by Professor Norton, who expressed first his interest in the Club, and then proceeded to give an account of the condition of Art at Venice during the most prosperous days of the city. On Tuesday, March 9, Mr. Ware, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave an account of the building of the Louvre and the Tuileries, which was both interesting and instructive. Mr. Ware illustrated his remarks by a large number of photographs, and by a diagram of the buildings. The lectures will be continued as soon as further arrangements are made...
...first, with the Union six oars one second behind. Few who were present will forget the desperate struggle at the finish to get the nose of the Harvard past the line in advance of the Union. There was no hope of winning the cup, which the allowance of time gave beyond a doubt to the Union. One or more of the men in the Harvard had gone into the race without proper preparation, and were incapable of doing much more than paddle long before the race was over, but the magnificent efforts of the sound men saved the crew...
SOME years ago Dr. Paley gave the Library a large and valuable collection of pamphlets, and every year has made additions to it. This collection has now grown to several thousand interesting pamphlets...
AFTER suffering in silence from the cold at prayers for two days, we instructed our reporters to ascertain exactly how cold it was; and accordingly, on Wednesday, two of them gave us the following results. One of them, in a comparatively secluded corner, found his thermometer had fallen to 42, and as yet showed no intention of remaining fixed; the other, in a more exposed situation, yet not more exposed than that occupied by most of the two upper classes, recorded a temperature of 36. Under such circumstances as these, we should like to ask those of our government...
...kind of contest where victory might perpetuate our error. While we do not wholly agree with some of the journals in considering this as merely a contest in "prize declamation and composition," yet we think that one of the Boston papers was much further from the truth when it gave as a parallel institution the contest on literary topics which has found its occasions in the rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge. Such a comparison is simply so premature, that our grandchildren will probably be able to laugh at it with us. As to the immediate future of this "Literary Association...