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Just before the war there was an unusual calm about the College, and the southern men, though always friendly generally held apart from College activities. At the first outbreak of the war the southerners left in a body to join the Confederate army, and one hundred and forty-three of the northerners enlisted in the Union army...
...Gazette, will deliver the second of the Harvard Memorial Society lectures this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room, on "Harvard During the Civil War." He will describe the condition of the college at the time of the war, and the separation of the northern and southern men to enlist in the armies. He will also relate the history of the College during the rebellion and will speak of the services rendered the country by many of the Harvard...
...dying and making a collection of the rate coral formations of the Indian Ocean. Mr. Agassiz fitted out the expedition and is conducting it in person, accompanied by W. McM. Woodworth. A steamer was chartered at Colombo, Ceylon, from the British India Company, to transport the expedition to the southern part of the Indian Ocean, where the Maldive Islands lie. The islands of the Indian Ocean are the only group of atolls remaining which Mr. Agassiz has not examined in his explorations for the study of coral formations. The islands are remote and unfrequented, and it is expected that...
...interesting collection of relics and skeletons from the mounds of southern Mississippi has recently been unpacked in the Peabody Museum. The collection was made by Dr. Charles Peabody and Mr. W. C. Farrabee, who spent last May and June excavating mounds in Coahoma County, Mississippi, with the help of a company of ten men. The collection includes a number of well-preserved skeletons of mound-builders, some good fragmentary pottery, including many colored and decorated specimens, and an excellent collection of arrow and lance heads, knives, and other stone implements. The classification of this collection, which filled twelve large boxes...
...Advocate are interesting and well written; there is very little verse, and it is not especially good. "The Major's Hallowe'en," by F. M. Class, is an effective story, giving, in spite of inaccuracies in dialect and description, a sympathetic character sketch of the "old school" southern gentleman. "One of the Crowd," by Richard Inglis, is another character sketch: it seems a little improbable and is not vivid. "Tramping with a Botanist;" describes and mildly caricatures, with a good deal of humor, the adventures and character of an exploring botanist. "The March Inland," by Albert de Roode, written...