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...Wednesday, April 6, Professor Chas. L. J-cks-n will lecture on a subject to be announced. This subject to-be-announced will undoubtedly prove the most charming, witty, entertaining, and brilliant lecture of the season. We risk our predicting reputation on its profound success...
WILL I take a ticket to the Philosophical Club's Chamber Concerts on Physiology, - "a subject at once useful and interesting"? No! I won't take a ticket, and I won't let any one else, and I'm going to prosecute you and the Philosophical Club and the Rum Club and the Society of Naturals. It's shameful that such organizations should exist! They drive me crazy! I've been to readings, concerts, lectures, and consultations in Sever, Harvard, Boylston, and University for five months now, and the end must be near. What man has done...
...instances; and I think I may truthfully say that no man living is more intimately acquainted with the doings and sayings of the famous literary people of the age than I am. And since the Quizzical Club has kindly invited me to speak to them to-night on the subject of Tennyson, having ascertained that the great poet is at the Isle of Wight for the season, and not likely to return before his anger has had time to cool, I will endeavor, to the best of my ability, to disclose to you his personal habits and his characteristic mental...
...meditations were interrupted by the subject of them, who insisted upon my riding up to the house with Mrs. T., saying that there was not room enough for three, and that, having enjoyed my company all day, he preferred to walk. I had long been desirous of a chance to study Mrs. T.'s character, and therefore I assented to this arrangement very cheerfully. I plied her with questions all the way, and I thus acquired many new ideas in relation to her husband's habits. I learned that he did not, as a rule, like Americans (thank Heaven...
...Anatomy and Physiology. The popularity of the course formerly conducted by Professor James would prove this, if proof were needed; but, when we consider the number of students whose special pursuits are connected with this study, and the still larger number who have a general interest in the subject, we need not search further for evidence that the course is desirable. As an aid to the intelligent appreciation of art and the more thorough knowledge of athletic development, the study of anatomy is of no little service; and even to those who have no special artistic or athletic bent, ignorance...