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...active members of the C. T. Co. number twenty-one at the present time, and there are forty-one machines on private line in the College buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...present time, when so much is being said about the department of Oratory and Rhetoric in our own College, and an effort is being made to improve the condition of our literary societies, it is neither uninteresting nor profitless to ascertain how much importance is attached to these arts in foreign universities, and to examine the success of undergraduate clubs formed for the purpose of fostering them. The Oxford Union Society is an organization of this character, and the report of the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in the London Times, of October 23, affords good evidence of its success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUCCESSFUL DEBATING-CLUB. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that Professor Agassiz is already overworked, he has consented to deliver a course of lectures in Washington this winter; gave a lecture in Fitchburg last Thursday evening; and will throughout the present academic year deliver a lecture every Friday forenoon, at II o'clock, to the students of the College. Those who have not hitherto attended these lectures are wasting excellent opportunities to hear the theory of "evolution" discussed very thoroughly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...seldom seen, that to a majority it is a thing of the past, and supposed by them to have perished with the writers who so fully described some remarkable examples of it long years ago. But in a mild form it exists at the present time, and has found its way into the sanctum of the student. We have in our little world well-marked examples of this mild misanthrope, holding himself aloof from the companionship of his classmates; forming none of those friendships which add so much to the pleasure of college life; moving within a charmed circle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISANTHROPY. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

...Amherst, last summer, urged upon the attention of his. hearers the need of educated men in politics, and-Dr. Holland has commented thereon in Scribner's Monthly, expressing his own conviction that, after all. it is not scholars, but gentlemen, that are the desideratum in our political life at present. Now to a Harvard student, with whom scholar is supposed to have become almost synonymous with gentleman, who himself claims to be both a gentleman and a scholar, this topic should be of no small interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS AND POLITICS. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »