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PROFESSOR LANE'S house has been moved away to make room for Sever Hall...
...BRETHREN: These old familiar strains have set us in easy motion. The Spaniards have a proverb that 'leaving home is half the journey,' so much do they make of the start. But you are already on the threshold, and Harvard pilgrims, like those of Canterbury of long centuries ago, are quick to entertain themselves. Different men find many different attractions in a time like this, but I think we shall all of us agree that one of them, at least, is its evenness. The scales, elsewhere ascending and descending with great abruptness, here come to a quiet poise...
...number of speakers, so that the contest will not be wearisomely long, and special care has been taken to avoid the dull and hackneyed selections which have bored listeners in previous years. Much credit is due the instructors who have brought about this change, and have labored to make the contest something more than the dreary affair it has usually been. We wish, now, to urge upon all students the importance of attending it. Prize speaking is a matter of college interest, and should attract more than a handful of listeners. In other colleges it has a dignity and importance...
...Some Books" is well written and contains much sound common-sense. "The Light-Keeper's Story" is an interesting and thrilling tale, and altogether a very creditable production. Want of space prevents us from noticing the other articles, but they are all good. The only criticism we have to make on the Lit. is the insertion of so many baseball scores and so much society news. Why not leave such things as these for the Courant and Record...
...must have had a remarkable mind. He saw through the devices that men invent to conceal the transitory nature of everything on earth, and he resolved to make the most of the present. In this side of character he is thoroughly Horatian. One would fancy he was reading one of the Odes when meeting these lines...