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...announce that this suggestion was favorably received, and a society formed, which consists at present of some twenty-five members, the limit of membership being thirty. It meets once a week, at the various rooms of the members; by this means the expense of the society is very much lessened. An hour and a half is whiled away in conversation carried on in German, in the use of which language some have attained remarkable proficiency for so short a time. Since everything connected with this club is to be distinctly German, the collations prepared are of a frugal character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...third reform we call to mind is not so much a reform as an abolishment; but all appreciate it, and only wonder that a similar step was not taken half a century or so ago. We allude, of course, to the annulment of the law prohibiting smoking in the yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR REFORMS. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

These Heliotypes will not meet with approbation from our chance visitors; these gentlemen will be much more likely to abuse us soundly for affectation. But if we sternly banish all lithographs from our rooms, in company with most chromos, and put these in their stead, we shall soon find an enjoyment before unknown to us in looking at these works of true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY HELIOTYPES. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...saint; he merely wished to represent an old man absorbed in study, and took far more delight in giving in firm, strong lines all the details of a homely interior. The flood of light warms one's very heart, and the shagginess of the lion delights us nearly as much as it did the artist himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY HELIOTYPES. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...different." There is no doubt about the altered aspect. The opinion of Professor Hadley of Yale is quoted to the effect that the Yale oarsmen have been so often beaten because they have been good scholars, implying that boating men are, as a rule, poor scholars. Every one having much acquaintance with oarsmen knows that such is not the case. Some of the most prominent boating men at Harvard have been high scholars. The following extract from the Pall Mall Budget of February I, 1873, also goes to prove that workers in the boat are not always idlers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NATION, AND INTERCOLLEGIATE SCHOLARSHIPS. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »