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THE success of the lectures given under the auspices of the Natural History Society leads us to hope not only that the course may be continued next year, but that lectures may be delivered on other subjects as well. The attendance at Professor Hedge's lectures on German literature is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

WE hope that, on the completion of the new wing of the Library, a change will be made in regard to the alcoves. Beyond the name, the catalogue necessarily gives the most unsatisfactory and meagre information in regard to the character of a book. In half the time it ordinarily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

DIED in Cambridge, on the 18th of March, Hon. Emory Washburn, aged 77. At the time of his resignation, a few months ago, Governor Washburn was the senior professor in the University, having filled his chair for twenty years. He had previously borne high office, and performed distinguished service, alike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBITUARY. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

Of the most flagrant sinners against the canons of good taste in pronunciation in college, I have distinguished three well-defined classes: the Western, the Southern, and the New England. The first two, while doing justice, as a general rule, to the vowel o, manifest a decided aversion to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROVINCIALISMS AT HARVARD. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

IT is one of the darkest mysteries to the average undergraduate mind that our Faculty should be so backward in paying respect to the memory of great men. Not the slightest observance is paid in this College to Washington's Birthday; the Faculty stopped recitations on the day of Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESPECT PAID TO ILLUSTRIOUS MEN. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »