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This Shakespere Society is the most flourishing of any of our organizations. The private meetings are held about once a month and the girls read and study the different plays with great pleasure and profit. Two literaries existed last year, the Phi Sigma and Zeta Alpha, but, sad to tell, they were disbanded and now Wellesley can boast of only four societies - the Beethoven, Microscopical and Missionary. Some weeks ago the latter gave a very pleasant exposition of Eastern customs in the gymnasium, the walls of which were hung with scarlet draperies and Oriental banners, while the stage presented several...
EDITOR HARVARD HERALD : As is well known, there have been several attempts among the students, of late years, to provide some means of procuring books and of protecting themselves from extortionate prices. For various reasons, these enterprises have been short-lived, though every one was ready and willing to profit by the advantages they afforded. It seems that the principal reason is, that Mr. Sever always cuts prices for a time so that the enterprising students are unable to successfully compete with him, their capital being limited, and he having other resources upon which to rely, as well...
...reported that the Greek play has proved a successful venture, and that the managers will realize a handsome profit...
Sensible as ever: President Chadbourne of the Agricultural Colleges, so miscalled, says that no young man should go to college until he is old enough to know what he goes for, nor stay a day after he forgets his duty as a citizen, or fails to profit by the advantages afforded him. College rowdies belong at the reform school. - [Herald...
...Acta Columbiana was hard at work trying to start the Intercollegiate Press Association, but failed in its attempt. It seems to us that no harm could possibly come from such an association, but, on the other hand, its members would derive a great deal of pleasure and profit from its meetings. The Acta has recently received calls from various parts of the country to renew its work in behalf of the association. In reply to these calls, it says : "To all those who ask our aid for this we beg leave to say that last year you let us whistle...