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...report of the treasurer of the Longfellow Memorial Association shows that at the last annual meeting, the fund of the association contributed for the erection of a monument and the laying out of a park, amounted to $12,876.50. Since last year, $313.25 has been contributed. Including the interest of the fund ($318.36), the total amount of the fund is $13,508.11. Of this amount, $12,950 has been invested in the purchase of Cambridge city bonds, $57.66 used for expenses, and the balance, $555.58 deposited in a bank...
...Civil Service Reform League of Bloomington, Illinois, lately roused much interest in its cause by offering to the students of Indiana University prizes for the best essays in Civil Service Reform. The action of this reform league seems in many ways calculated to bring about the ends at which it aims. For people are fond of telling us that we, who are now undergraduates, will soon be prominent in American politics and journalism. If it be true that we are soon to play an important part, it is needful that we should play it well; that we should be fully...
...complaint has recently been made that the present lack of energy in the bicycle club is the result of a want of personal enthusiasm for the sport on the part of the officers themselves. Lack of interest on the part of the officers is certain to result in the deterioration and possible dissolution of any organization. In the case of a bicycle club especially is there need of an active interest among the officers. It is only by a personal interest which arises from the sport itself, and has as its highest aim the promotion of that sport that...
This evening is delivered a lecture in Sever on "Notoriety in Art" by Mr. Herkomer, professor of fine arts at Oxford. It is gratifying to see that, at a time when so many other interests are forced upon our minds, and when we would be most likely to forget the claims of an art, which does not aim solely at practical ends, attention is called to the department of fine arts in a way at once pleasing and elevating. Mr. Herkomer enjoys a high reputation as a scholarly critic, and is a man of refined tastes. Anything that he will...
...OAKES, Sec'y.NAT. HIST. SOCIETY. - Informal meeting this Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. in Mass. 2. A number of communications of interest will be presented and the attendance of members is earnestly desired...