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MUSEUM. - "Butterfly Fever" and "Napoleon's Old Guard...
...Hale lectured yesterday at the Old South on "English Generals in the American Revolution," reciting also an original poem, "The Chevy Chase of New England," which will appear in one of the May magazines...
With the announcement that unless more boarders are obtained Memorial would be closed, it seemed for a while as if a panic had seized upon those who up to this time have thrown their fortunes with the hall. One thought of the old proverb, that rats forsake a sinking vessel, when on all sides one heard the men express their determination to leave. To such we would give the advice of Horace Greely to the giddy youth about to marry, "Don't." If the hall is once closed, when once we have been compelled to submit to the extortions...
MUSEUM. - "Butterfly Fever" and "Napoleon's Old Guard...
...then we shall realize how much we owe to it, and not until then will the students see how much it has done toward cheapening the price of board in Cambridge. To be sure, there has been good ground for complaint in the past, but only let the old boarders return, let them take a personal interest in the welfare of the association, instead of heaping reproach upon the directors, and all may run smoothly yet, the board will be better and the price lower. The first important measure for the committee, or whoever has the care of such matters...