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FRANCIS G. PEABODY."A meeting will be held in Holden Chapel at 7 o'clock this evening to organize further these meetings. It is believed that they will furnish work of such a sort as will really help the people for whom the meetings are held. It is hoped that every member of the University who feels at all interested in the matter will come to the meeting to-night. None need feel that by his presence he commits himself to any part in the undertaking...
...lights which are placed around the side of the gallery are exceedingly disagreeable to those who sit up there. The heat and glare arising from the jets are such as to compel any one who consults his own comfort to hold a book before him or something of the sort to keep the light from his face. This evil could be easily reme died if the college authorities would take the matter in hand and put globes about the jets. Another source of annoyance, accompanied often with a cold, are the draughts which come from the windows in the gallery...
...those who do not play foot-ball during the fall, and who yet enjoy a bracing afternoon's sport, no better opportunity is afforded than the runs across country undertaken by the Hare and Hounds Club. Everyone feels the need of some sort of recreation after the studies of the morning and early afternoon, and it was in order to meet this demand that the club was first started. The cold, invigorating weather of the next two months and the character of the country round about Cambridge, made the sport a very popular one from the outset, so much...
...blame for this sort of carelessness, whether it be "apparent" or not, can not be laid at the door of any individual. The miserable system, or lack of system, under which the financial arrangements of our athletic organizations are conducted, is the real cause of the whole trouble...
...From a pretty careful examination of this volume we are inclined to think it one of the best brief accounts of our constitutional system that have been published. It has the sort of merit that is usually found in the comments of a competent foreign observer upon the institutions of any country. Things that attract little attention, and so are often not at all remarked or understood by those who live under a given system, strike a stranger with the charm of novelty; they are tacitly compared with other institutions, and their true character is often more keenly perceived...