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...place of honor in the current number of the Monthly is held by Professor Schofield's article on "The Department of Comparative Literature." It is important that this new and extremely valuable department should be widely known; and Professor Schofield has here explained clearly the aims and scope of the department and the liberal spirit that underlies it. Two papers devoted to the Young Instructor, who is apparently a very disturbing character, analyze from different points of view the causes and results of his existence, and offer suggestions regarding him which will doubtless be helpful in bringing about the ultimate...
...birth of Louis Agassiz h.'48 will be celebrated in Sanders Theatre this evening at 7.45 o'clock, under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society. At this hour a public re-union of the surviving pupils of Professor Agassiz will take place and the audience which will do honor to the great scholar and teacher promises to be a distinguished...
...evening a dinner and military reception will be given in honor of General Kuroki by Governor Curtis Guild '81 at the New Algonquin Club, and the following morning the visitors will leave Boston for the west...
...annual dinner of the Deutscher Verein, which will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union on Friday evening at 7 o'clock, has been arranged in honor of the officers of the German warship "Bremen," at present anchored in Boston harbor. Mr. W.T. Reincke, the German consul at Boston, Professor Munsterberg, Professor Francke, Professor Peabody, who was visiting professor to the University of Berlin last year, and Professor Schofield, recently appointed visiting professor for next year, will also be among the invited guests. Tickets to the dinner, at $2 each, may be obtained by the members...
...activity is the presence of lazy or inefficient officers, men who accepted positions the accompanying duties of which they never intended to fulfil faithfully or have subsequently shirked. It is very pleasant to be known as the president or secretary of this or that organization, but it is an honor which should be paid for, if not bought, by a certain amount of effective work. For anyone to receive office with bored indifference or with the knowledge that he has neither the time nor inclination to fulfil its duties, is too plain a mistake to need comment. And yet this...