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...from each class and school, provided the number in each is more than forty; if less than forty, one director will be allowed. With the officers is to rest the choice of an auditor, who shall keep the accounts and exercise a general supervision, at the salary of the present steward. The pictures now in Massachusetts are to be hung in the hall, and every means used to make the hour of dinner pleasant and social...
...thorough study and complete mastery of a somewhat difficult part. In the farce we have to notice the great dramatic talent of Mr. Isham, who was decidedly the attraction, the play being nothing in itself. The hall was fairly filled, but not by any means crowded, though the number present did not probably give a correct idea of the number of tickets sold...
...smoke, and any one who smokes at all smokes just at the odd moments which he could most conveniently spend in the reading-room. The natural result is that a large number of men in college deprive the reading-room of their company, and, what is more important at present, of their two dollars...
...other hand, it seems very difficult to assign any sufficient reason for prohibiting smoking in a room of this kind, as none of the arguments which usually hold against it apply in the present case. The old gentlemen and middle-aged females who object to tobacco on principle seldom find their way into Lower Massachusetts; and it is safe to say that not one in a hundred of those who do frequent the room really dislike to have tobacco smoke around them...
Distinctly literary ventures which depend entirely on the support of the undergraduates have not, as a rule, been successful here until they found other attractions to recommend them. The Harvard Magazine was very heavy and very literary. As the present papers took warning from it and avoided that extreme, the result has been that they have met with the most perfect success. If the reading-room would in the same way take warning from "history," there is no doubt that, in proportion as it afforded liberty and comfort to its frequenters, it would increase both their number and their interest...