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...have no mean value as a branch of general culture. Hardly any instruction could be more interesting, and though we can learn but little, comparatively, of what is to be known, - of the omne scibile, - yet we have reached a stage at which it is desirable for us to take a broad, general view of the whole field of knowledge. This is necessary that we may have some understanding of the work of students in other departments than those in which it holds in the grand whole, as well as to enable us to choose our own studies. Besides...
...Cambridge Subscription Assembly will take place in Lyceum Hall on Tuesday, April 6. Tickets, four dollars each, admitting a gentleman with ladies, can be obtained at 43 Matthews...
...theatricals in aid of the Boat Club will take place in Boston at Horticultural Hall on Thursday and Friday evenings, April 8 and 9, and on Saturday afternoon, April 10. The performance on Thursday will consist of the burlesque of "William Tell," preceded by the farce entitled "A Happy Pair." Two farces, "Which is Which?" and "One too Many for Him," will be presented on Friday, and they will be followed by a Negro Interlude. On Saturday afternoon "William Tell," and the farce "A Happy Pair," will be repeated...
...hard-hearted official in question; and they beg him to examine for himself the chambers of horrors which they so graphically describe. After dwelling for a time upon these dismal scenes, they suddenly draw the most striking of contrasts. They tell their preceptors that "at Harvard women take charge of the dormitories," and they proceed to describe the spotless neatness with which the students' rooms are kept by the sweet-scented sylphs of Cambridge. Finally, they return to themselves, and close with a prayer for cleanliness, tidiness, and women servants. We sincerely hope that they may soon have all these...
...drinking-bouts are far more amusing than the more notorious duels. These take place sometimes at the Bier Keller, sometimes in the rooms of a society. Imagine a party of students in a large garden, seated on a long wooden bench before a table of equal length, under the shade of horse-chestnut trees. At one side stands a low wooden building into which one after another the students disappear, and emerge again with a large glass of beer, accompanied by a huge piece of bread and cheese. There are no Kellner, and each one has to go into...