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JUNIOR AND SOPHOMORE RHETORIC (second half-year). The examination for those who wish to anticipate this study is fixed for Saturday, January 13, at 11 A.M. Text-books: Whately's Rhetoric (Parts I. and II.); Lessing's Laocoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...tickets for the second concert at Sanders Theatre, next Thursday, are now ready at Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...very same ideas as now appear from Mr. C.'s pen, intending to send the article to one of the College papers; but I desisted for the reasons, first, that I could not write temperately concerning what I deemed stupid obstinacy on the part of Harvard boating-men; and, second, because I could not claim to have been a University oar. But now that the idol of the Harvard oar has received one square blow, I am tempted to endeavor to administer another, hoping thereby to knock said idol completely off its pedestal, and smash it into flinders. Complete iconoclasm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...meeting of the club Wednesday evening it was voted that the regular fall championship match take place Saturday, December 16. To give interest to the match competitors will be divided into two classes; to the first any member will be admitted, to the second none who have ever made a score of thirty-eight or more out of a possible fifty in any match whatsoever. Of course no second-class man will be entitled to a first-class prize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD RIFLE-CLUB. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...following subjects: "A Personal Experience," or "A Criticism on the Late Discussion." I thought over my eventful career, but could not recall any episode which seemed likely to edify my instructor, and so, although not knowing what the "Late Discussion" was about, I decided to take the second alternative. But as I ground up on the subject, I became deeply interested in it, - a thing which had never happened before. As I only read the Advocate articles, I became dreadfully alarmed about the state of affairs existing here. The subject weighed on my mind even after the theme was handed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RESULT OF REFORM. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »