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...classic fables have come down from early times under the name of Esop's fables; but Esop, like Homer, is an unknown person. The first known collections of Greek fables was made about 300 B. C., by a certain Demetrius. Upon his version succeeding collections were made, with additions of tales from the East. From Greece the fables spread to Rome and thence over Europe, until in the Middle Ages several collections of tales were made in England and France, notably by Romulus Imperator and Marie de France...
...habit of marking books. Many books, especially those which are reserved in the reading room, and which all the members of a course have to use, are disfigured throughout by underscorings and marginal lines, and even by marginal comments, which become in some cases little controversies between unknown critics. Aside from the distracting effect of these marks on the reader, causing him involuntarily to emphasize portions usually least important, the practice is morally wrong. No man has any right whatever to injure and deface property not his own. And no man would mark up a book borrowed from an individual...
Some time ago an offer was submitted to the University Corporation from an unknown benefactor to put in a new window in the north end of the transept at Memorial Hall, in memory of those whose names are inscribed on the tablets of the transept. The Corporation accepted this anonymous offer and appointed a committee to arrange the matter. Owing to the death of Mr. Brimmer, the chairman of this committee, to whom the designs were submitted, the work has been somewhat delayed. The window probably will not be completed for at least two years. The scaffolding now up around...
...past that is seldom attained in such a large gathering of men, many of whose interests differ widely. The genuine old class sprit, which has now almost disappeared, revives at these dinners and each man feels that there is a common bond of sympathy between himself and his possibly unknown classmate...
...playgoers of Boston are so disunited, so largely unknown personally to each other, that the judgment that they pass upon plays is far from having the weight that should belong ot any expression of opinion based on experience and thought. It is proposed that this club, to consist of such playgoers as shall be invited to join, shall meet from time to time to listen to addresses on dramatic subjects directly suggested by current productions, to discuss the merits and demerits of such performances as may at the time be attracting public attention, and in general to make the best...