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...next meeting of the Christian Brethren, on Thursday Evening at 6 1/2 o'clock, Mr. Edward Abbott will be present. All are invited to attend...
...MEETING of the Harvard Club of San Francisco was recently held in that city, and its affairs seem to be in a prosperous condition. The dinner was well attended, considering the distances men have to travel in California. There were present about twenty or twenty-five graduates and former members of the College. Several members of the class of '77 graced the dinner with their presence, and enthusiastic speeches were made by graduates of longer standing. Mr. Fried-lander, formerly of the class of '79, was the youngest gentleman at the dinner...
...Advocate of last week appeared an article proposing a change from the present system of club crews to that of class crews, in which the writer suggests that we buy no more boats from Mr. Blakey, but devote our resources to the purchase of the shells left over each year by the University Crew, and thus return to class crews. That some change should be made is universally admitted, but the suggestion to buy no more boats from Mr. Blakey shows that the writer must have been ignorant of the agreement made with the latter last year. In this agreement...
...seems to be highly fashionable at present to criticise the management of our excellent Library. Why this should be so just when such great changes and improvements are making, whereas no one used to complain of the time honored inconveniences under the last regime, we cannot imagine: we hope it is because there is greater interest in the question; but even this reason cannot excuse such a superfluity of ingenious fault-finding. Doubtless its defects have been more evident this year to the mass of students, because they have used it so much more; but anybody who knows other libraries...
...arrangement could be made so that a theme could be returned with corrections in season to serve as a guide in the composition of the next, those who really wish to learn how to write would have an opportunity to make more rapid improvement than they can make at present...