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...death of DR. JAMES WALKER, occurring immediately at the beginning of the recess, calls for a respectful mention on our part of a distinguished and venerable man, long identified, in various relations, with Harvard College...
...obtained reasonably. One great good arising from many of the newly formed societies is the bringing together of different class-men. The sprightly Freshman may checkmate the sedate Senior, and the majestic Sophomore discourse learnedly on the origin of metalliferous deposits to an admiring group of members of the various departments of the University. A few years ago one of the papers had a capital article on Whist; and, however this attempt may succeed, perhaps it will awaken more interest in this queen game of cards...
...history and its various changes during the centuries of its existence are matters of much interest to all chess-players; while even more than "seven cities" have claimed the honor of its invention. The source of chess is, however, generally traced back to the old Hindu game, Chaturanga...
...Virginia University Magazine contains much matter, but very little mind. The Denison Collegian is chiefly remarkable for bad spelling. The Dartmouth has begun to copy its puffs. The Yale Lit. is intensely literary, filling its columns with notices of various books written by Swinburne, Whitman, and a certain Mr. Thackeray...
...Noble Kinsmen, a play by Shakspere and Fletcher, as also a revised edition, with notes, of the same play. A number of interesting works that the society would do well to publish have been suggested in the Academy, by Mr. Richard Simpson and others. Among them, besides various forms of parallel texts, are suggested reprints of the works of Robert Greene, Thomas Nash, Thomas Lodge, Henry Chettle, and others; reprints of seventeen plays, at some time or other attributed, in whole or in part, to Shakspere; lists of all the companies of actors in Shakspere's time, besides much else...