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...Wall streets, opposite the "Scroll and Key," and now the "Stone Trust Company, " or "Sigma Delta Chi," better known as the "Book and Snake," a sister society of the "T Company," in the Sheffield scientific school, is about to erect a cloister, which, in all respects, will fill the modern idea of a club house...
...constructed is East Haven stone, laid in various styles. The basement wall, up to the mater tablet, will be laid "crazy," the first story in broken ashler; the second story in regular ashler. There will be numerous gable windows and other ornamental devices which have come into use in modern architecture. Open fireplaces, window seats, and in fact everything which tends to make a perfectly appointed gentlemen's clubhouse, will be found within the new building.-Boston Herald...
With every enlargement of the various departments of instruction announced in the elective pamphlet, the maze through which the man of "no particular bent of soul" must wander becomes denser and more labyrinthine. But this is one of the disadvantages that attends every growth of what modern sociologists term "the diversification of function." The choice which the individual must make be comes modified and motivated by the introduction of new fields that are opened to him. A recognition of this fact is forced on every man as he sits down to make out his electives for the ensuing year. Moreover...
...plainly for local improvements in unknown places. He showed a map on which a red wafer marked each place for which appropriations were made by the bill, and mentioned among others Mispillion Creek, Carrituek Sound, Coanjok Bay, Chefuncte River and Bogue Phalia, and proposed to turn over to the Modern Language Association the Skagit, Nootsack Stelaquamish. Snokomish and Snoqualmie Rivers. Often the improvement was of use to nobody, as in the case of one river which could be carried by a twelve-inch drain. In another case, the Fox and Winconsin Rivers, the government had spent two and a half...
...only clever verse de societie that the book contains. Mr. Thompson's "Modern Lover," Mr. Cummings' "Pater Nostro Qui Es in Terra," and Mr. Lord's "Storm-Scarred Headland's," are beautiful example of how well Harvard undergraduates, young men of twenty, can express beautiful thoughts. Indeed, as Dr. Peabody says in his preface to the book. "In the volume published ten years ago are the early poems of some men who have already won a large and enviable reputation, of which that book contains the authentic prophecy. Like prophecy will be found in the volume now given...