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...games with Uxbridge have advanced but two moves on each side since our last number. The Harvard and Boston Chess Clubs began a game last Friday evening, and stopped playing after the 26th move. Harvard had gained a pawn, and had a slight advantage in position. The game will be finished soon...
...conducting the Anderson School upon the plan originally intended. The Trustees find themselves at the end of the means at their disposal. To enable them to carry on the school, it is proposed to charge a fee of fifty dollars for the season, and they hope that a sufficient number of pupils can be secured to warrant them in going on. Even with the proposed charges there will be a considerable deficit (as was the case last year) to be met by the friends of the Penikese School, the position of the island entailing expenses which a more favored locality...
...shifting, unsettled, and insincere; can we expect that its art should not be so too? Men of to-day are confused by the magnitude and the number of the questions which Religion, Science, Literature, and Philosophy put to them so sharply and so remorselessly. Is it strange, then, that they are without convictions, and therefore fail...
...long since we took occasion to "growl" at the way the club crews monopolized the boats in the afternoons, and proposed a remedy, which we hope will receive attention. We know that it meets the approbation of a large number of club members, and that it would give general satisfaction, if the hours during which the crews need the boats were definitely fixed...
...Dartmouth is unusually good. It opens with a very clever article entitled the "Cave of Poetry." A number of students come together to read and discuss some half-dozen poems, - some sentimental, some comic. There is also an exciting story of lawless life in old California, which is declared in a note to be absolutely true; it is certainly stranger than the average fiction. The other articles are by no means without merit...