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...regular meeting for the election of officers to the Harvard Art Club will take place on Thursday, February 28, at 7.30 P. M. After the business meeting has adjourned, Mr. Norton will discuss numismatics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

...that he might put to them during the recitation on the ground they had already gone over, making it a point to ask a few questions during each hour, and letting students know that they were marked on their answers, I think that nine tenths of those that now take History would make greater improvement, and find it easier to do faithful work than at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FEW HINTS ON HISTORY. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

...branch of a tree, and generally had her nerves strung to so high a pitch of excitement that if a reaction took place after graduation, the consequences must have been dreadful indeed. Likewise did she have her share of other wooing than that of the Muses, and did not take an entirely passive part in the amusement, as is sufficiently shown by the following invitation to a shooting expedition, in which, by the way, she shot several squirrels "on the fly," and performed other remarkable feats of sportsmanship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK NOTICE. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

...horse. Upon remonstrating with Beatrice for her peculiar behavior, she replies, with great presence of mind, in a quotation from Cherbuliez' Meta Holdenis (which, however, is not given as a quotation), "Since I had not your heart, I was determined that no one else should." The Puppy proceeds to take her home, where she is immediately seized with a fever, on her recovery from which she and the Puppy are happily united in the bonds of holy matrimony. Not having the pen of Gail Hamilton, we will make no criticism. We simply extend out cordial and sorrowful sympathy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...very evident, also, that we have great need of a large lecture-room. Fine Arts 2, a course which has a larger attendance and which exerts a greater influence than any other elective, requires a much better room than can be at present given to it. To take notes and sit with any ease in Upper Holden is wellnigh impossible; while the difficulty of showing engravings and illustrations to the class is very great. This leads to another idea. There is no reason why the recitation-rooms should not be made attractive. If rope-matting be out of the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUGGESTIONS FOR SEVER HALL. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »