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...room adjoining number one is being altered to serve as a library for the historical department. In this case, also, rather cramped quarters are to be changed for ample ones. The books of this department are now in University 20 and are to be brought to the new room as soon as convenient. Still another room is being refitted. This is next to the new historical library room and is to serve as a library for the classical department, its collection of books being now nearly all in Sever Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improvements in Harvard Hall. | 2/11/1891 | See Source »

...time of writing, only about fifty men have signed the book for the junior class dinner. This is an extraordinarily small number from so large a class as Ninety-two; and the apparent lack of interest must be due rather to a misunderstanding of the character of the dinner than to total indifference. A class dinner is always one of the most democratic gatherings in college. Every man gives up altogether whatever clique or society feeling he may have to make the class the unit; every element is united into one body which has the welfare of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/11/1891 | See Source »

...Love as an Extra," by Norman Hapgood-the only fiction in the number-is not a story of action or of incident, but rather one of character delineation. The different moods of the hero are vividly drawn, and although the scene with the other principal character-the heroine-does not seem to have the force it should possess, the story as a whole gives a clear and correct picture of one of a class of men who, as the author says, "were prominent at Harvard a decade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Monthly. | 2/10/1891 | See Source »

Second crew. Watriss '92, stroke, 165. Rowed on freshman crew and substitute on 'varsity. Rather weak in the stomach and fails to get an easy swing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Crew. | 2/9/1891 | See Source »

Bartholomay L. S., 3, 160. Never sat in a boat but seems strong. He is improving fast but is rather unsteady on the recover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Crew. | 2/9/1891 | See Source »