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...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 to present the value of elocutionary work in a manner at once instructive and convincing. It is said that the course will be continued after the recess by several eminent public men, and we trust that the rumor may be verified. We congratulate...
...Beta Kappa invitation dinner occurs to-night. Mr. Huddleston will act as toast-master...
...August 9th, 1818, Amos Davis, Quarter-Master General, wrote to the Honorable Council as follows: "A stone powder magazine has been built on Captain's Island in Cambridge; a brick wall inclosing the magazine will be finished in about twenty days. The building will then be in complete order for the reception of powder...
...considerations of great thinking men who talk to the student in the hopes that he may learn by the experience of older men, and that what they say to him, may be of some advantage in after life. A solitary lecture by a well known speaker, who is master of his subject, will tend more to broaden the student's intellect, than if he remains at home pouring over some book which might as well be read at any other time. Lectures are now recognized by all students as of paramount importance; the series now being given at Harvard...
This Cremation, then, was an annual ceremony performed by the sophomores about the middle of May in which the principal thing was the burning of some book which the class had finished that term. As the book chosen was always one that the men had found difficult to master, there was general rejoicing at its destruction, although everything was conducted with a great show of solemnity. The students composing the funeral procession began to assemble about eight o'clock in the evening of the day appointed, all wearing caps and gowns; the coffin containing the doomed book was borne...