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During the past week the University has been most fortunate in the opportunity of hearing addresses by two most eminent men. Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson spoke Tuesday evening to a large and enthusiastic audience upon his friend Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Joseph Jefferson gave an informal talk on "Acting and the Drama," in the Art School on Thursday. The room was crowded to its utmost capacity and the speaker was given a rousing reception...
...Harvard Union held a competitive debate for membership, open only to freshmen. The subject of debate was: "Resolved, That members of the Cabinet should be given seats in Congress." H. A. Bull '95 and E. P. Williams '95 opened the debate as principal disputants, and the following freshmen then spoke. B. R. Robinson, W. E. Dorman, S. Brooks-Rosenthal, R. Pierson. V. H. Smith, C. F. Regan, R. M. Barker, C. E. Brown, F. Woodbridge, and L. O. Gifford. The judges, Mr. Lamont, Mr. C. L. Young and Mr. M. M. Skinner will decide on the men who are eligible...
...Colburn '95, K. Robson Div., and P. N. Cressey '95, spoke of their duties, as visitors for the Associated Charities of Boston...
...Birtwell then introduced Mrs. Palmer who spoke entertainingly of some incidents in the charitable and educational work among the Bohemian and Polish children of Chicago...
...lecturer next spoke of Dr. Birkbeck Hill's "Harvard College by an Oxonion." This book, said he, is an admirable account of the college from its earliest days to the present time. The writer has a pleasant, rather old-fashioned, literary quality, which lends itself better to narration and comment than to the making of any lively or complete impressions of our complex academic life at the passing moment. Dr. Birkbeck Hill was evidently deceived in one or two minor traits of college civilization by undergraduates with a taste for the American joke. In the main, this English writer...