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...MEETING of the Chess Club will be held at 42 Holyoke House, next Monday evening at half past seven. It is hoped that all members of the University who take any interest in chess, as well as the regular members of the club, will be present...
PROFESSOR NORTON has recommenced his lectures at the Lowell Institute, and they will take place every Tuesday and Friday evening. On Friday, November 3, the subject will be the Cathedral of Chartres. Next week Professor Norton will lecture on the Duomo of Sienna, the following week on the Duomo of Florence, and subsequently on the English Cathedrals...
...term "liberal advantages" has among most of our students a meaning quite foreign to that prevalent in the outer world. To us it implies not only favorable opportunities for developing our mental qualities, but also a certain liberality in choosing to take advantage of such opportunities. To be careless about our studies, to look down upon any show of energy and capacity for work, is "liberal." To make study the business of our college lives, and to believe that industry is an admirable quality, is at once to degrade ourselves to the level of students at the smaller colleges...
...nothing in it that does not please the eye. So far I have done my best for you. There are two things which I have left to your own taste, - books and pictures. You will of course need to buy a certain number of text-books, and if you take my advice, you will also pick up from time to time any outside books that may suit your fancy. You can't have too large a library, and nothing furnishes a room so well. For my own part, the fellow who lined his walls with boards painted to look like...
FROM time to time certain disturbances take place in Cambridge, of which the authors are probably students; and last week an unusual violation of private property occurred in the abstraction of a skeleton from the Natural History Museum. Whether the Faculty have taken any steps to discover the guilty parties is not known, but one thing is sure. Whatever steps the governing body might take against the thoughtless perpetrators of this boyish mischief would be sure to be unpopular among the great body of the students. Harsh measures, as has been well shown on various occasions, only stir...