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...would call the attention of those in the college who are graduates of the Boston Latin School to the announcement of the annual dinner of the Latin School Association which is to take place next week. The dinner has become one of Boston's old and time-honored institutions, and the gathering is always a most enjoyable one. It seems particularly appropriate that the dinner should be held at Parker's, which stands on the site occupied by the first building of the school in 1635. In view of the fact that there are over eighty men in college...
...dine at the Parker House, on Tuesday, Dec. 18th. The reception room will be open at half past five; dinner will be served promptly at six. Dr. William Everett will preside. Tickets ($2.50) may be obtained at Parker's, or by application to Mr. William Gallagher, Jr., at the school building. It is hoped that all intending to be present will procure tickets before Dec. 15th...
...words on the history of the school may not be without interest to the students of the college, among whom there are, at the present time, over eighty alumni of the school...
...college reading room occupying the reading room in the old law school building, up stairs, north front, will be open to subscribers tomorrow. A considerable list of periodicals and news papers will then be on file, which will be increased as soon as arrangements can be made and as soon as subscriptions now in arrears are paid up. The room is not open evenings for the present, but will be if enough subscriptions are received to pay the extra cost of lighting...
...Turkish. Theology includes the interpretation of the Koran and traditions. The instruction in the Medresses is not likely to advance in any great degree the cause of general enlightenment in Turkey, Quite recently a minister of public instruction, sitting upon a commission for looking into the state of the school of Turkey, on being shown some maps and mathematical problems executed by the pupils appeared entirely ignorant of their meaning and exclaimed, "Life of me! mathematics. geography, this, that, and the other, what use is such rubbish to us?" Most of these institutions, except the medical college, were formerly open...