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...ominous title of this contribution. I take it for granted that you know that the Pilgrim Fathers landed on the hospitable shore of Plymouth in the year 1620, and were received by the kindly attentions of Samoset and his warriors. In consequence of this little historical episode, a small stone called Plymouth Rock has obtained some celebrity, and is the foundation on which the Puritanical inhabitants of this little town build their hopes of prosperity in this world and salvation in that which is to come. I shall spare you all this, and merely sketch the experiences of a small...
...still much the society can do, and will do, towards a careful study of Shakspere. It is doubtful whether the plan of weekly or monthly papers to be read before the main society in London can be carried out; the number of living English writers on Shakspere is small, and men seek other ways of addressing the public when they wish to do so. But in the republication of rare books ("Allusion Books") in which reference is made to Shakspere, in issuing copies of the folios and quartos, in collating the texts and comparing them by parallel columns, there...
When a college has more than two hundred students it is entitled to be called "large," for the majority of the colleges of the United States contain, it seems, less than this number. In speaking of this abundance of small fry, the editor of the magazine says: "It is true that we are probably wasting force by multiplying the number of such institutions. One good one is better than five poor ones. It is not certain, however, that it is true that one large one is better than five small ones." He thinks, too, that "the bottom of all difficulties...
...French Comedy, through any misunderstanding. The lectures will be free to all students of the University who have sufficient knowledge of French to obtain practical benefit from attending them. Any member of the public at large, whether man or woman, can obtain a ticket to the lectures for the small sum of fifteen dollars. The lectures will be given on every Saturday through the academic year, at University 16; they will be delivered in French, and their subject is Moli&`e;re and French Comedy in the Seventeenth Century. Tickets can be obtained at the Steward's Office, Harvard College...
...club of this kind, members should bear in mind that here, as in other cases, concessions must be made by all, and that members ought to come expecting to yield certain points of rules and decorum, which in another place might be insisted on. However, personal objections should have small weight in these discussions, as it is probable that, through the courtesy of the Telegraph Company, games could be played by two opposite factions without their speaking to or even seeing each other...