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...learn that efforts are being made to start a Cambridge Co-operative Union, modelled in a general way upon the Harvard Co-operative Society. Indeed, the success of the Harvard institution and similar organizations at other colleges is one of the arguments used to urge citizens of Cambridge to join. But the career of our society has already shown that the most careful management is necessary in order to make co-operation successful. It will not do to have any such miscalculation and over-extension of business as we saw here a little over a year...
...Sophomore Society is much to be praised for its enterprise in getting up the theatricals which take place to day. We learn from the management that the affair is to be a financial success, - those who attended Thursday's rehearsal attest to the literary and musical charms of the piece - no more than was to be expected from the talented gentlemen who have composed it; and we are sure that the audience which assembles to-day to hear the two performances will be amused and delighted. The University Boat Club - and the college, (for upon the latter falls the burden...
...goes off on leave or is discharged, he is sent here till his ship goes to sea again. The ship serves more or less as a school ship. The men on board are kept in practice all the time, and young fellows like me are sent here and learn the tricks of the trade and how to be generally useful. This is the main deck." - It was broad and very smooth and clean and sunny - "These old guns are not much use now; they're muzzle loading smooth bores and would stand no chance against a modern iron-clad; those...
...Franklyn Sargent, Director of the New York School of Acting, lectures this evening in Sanders on "elocution in a collegiate course of study." Mention has already been made of the value of this lecture if heard with an idea to learn, but even from the standpoint of entertainment it promises to be of a high order. The great interest which the lecture of last week excited in all who heard it, will in all probability be equalled in the lecture of this evening. Mr. Sargent is widely and favorably known as a master in his profession and is fully competent...
...must do for our selves, to show us our apparatus; and when we consider this apparatus which the college provides for our mental exercise, the library stands first - if indeed it be granted that the aim of a liberal education is to get a basis for culture, to learn how we may most surely get at "the best which has been thought and said in the world." For books are the repositories of this wisdom of the past; they are the keys to the treasure-houses of thought. Consequently, when we learn that now eighty-five per cent...