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...Alpha Delta Phi Society celebrated its semi-centennial at the Academy of Music, New York, last night. Hon. John Jay presided...
Hilliard & Metcalf, Cambridge, published the Lyceum, as they did later the Register and the Collegian. The paper appeared semi-monthly and had as chief editor Edward Everett. In their "Address," the editors proclaim it to be the object of their paper to present the "many valuable hints suggested in a course of general study, which can only be published with propriety in the miscellaneous collections of a periodical pamphlet. . . . It is to be the publick common-place of its contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects...
There will be an hour examination in Philosophy 4, shortly after the spring vacation, on work done since the semi-annuals...
Berthold Auerbach, the noted German novelist, recently died in Cannes, France. He was of Jewish birth. He wrote several semi-historical works in his younger years and translated "Spinoza" into German, besides writing a biography of that philosopher. But his novels gained him his chief fame. He was always a zealous advocate of the cause of education...
Only one man took the semi-annual in Sanscrit. It has been the previous custom to have only one examination in this course, at the end of the year, but this year President Eliot gave special directions to hold a semi-annual examination...