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...superintendent of a library in New York city, speaking to a newspaper reporter, said of Harvard: "From the first Boston has had Harvard College at its doors, and that has given a tone to the whole city. Until a comparatively recent date commencement day at Harvard was a general holiday in Boston, banks and stores being closed. Imagine the Stock Exchange closing its doors, and the banks suspending business in this city because there was a commencement at Columbia or the University of the City of New York...
...recent meeting of the directors of the Bicycle Club it was unanimously voted that the club should have a dinner soon after the semis. Arrangements are to be made by the following named committee: J. R. Coolidge, '83; J. G. Coolidge, '84; Eliot Norton, '85; H. Lyman...
...Youth's Companion for 1883 are to appear articles by a recent Harvard graduate on "Shifts and Expedients of College Life...
...more critical and exacting in their demands in this kind of music that it is difficult for amateur composers any longer to command sufficient spontaneity and self-confidence for the production of lively and "taking" college songs. The most plausible explanation of the change, however, is found in the recent growth and wide-spread popularity of comic opera and similar music of the day. It is suggested that these light and popular melodies are coming to take the place in college life of the older class of distinctively college songs. And so, with the rapid abandonment of all the more...
...poem is such a recent discovery its reading by Prof. Lyon will be an event of special interest to every one, as he has studied the poem from original sources and is one of the few persons in the world who have made it a study. In the course of the reading, which will be short, he will give a metrical version of the episode of Istar, which has been written by one of his colleagues...