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...collection of statuary in the Fogg Art Museum, which fills a long felt want in the fine arts department, is continually being added to. Out of the money appropriated for the purpose, during the past two weeks, beside several photographs, the following figures have been purchased: Nike, Archer, Figure of a Youth, Mounted Nereid, and a group by Michael Angelo that has not been...
...Farragut's movement from below was checked for want of a land force, and Grant was too far from his base to continue his old plan without great difficulty. Vicksburg on the north and Port Hudson on the south were alone left to guard the Red River, the great artery of the West, but here the Confederates had concentrated all their force...
...been suggested, therefore, that a University Club or Union, to which men from all classes and schools and departments should be eligible, would meet a want now felt by large numbers of students. Such an institution would require a spacious and handsome clubhouse, situated in a central spot; it would provide a reading-room, where the leading newspapers and periodicals would be on file, smoking room, a library, a billiard-room, a large hall for meetings, and a restaurant. It would naturally come to be a resort for graduates, who feel more and more the need of a meeting place...
...Moxom said he was greatly interested in seeing how much good could be done incidentally by students really zealous in the work. He thought that a great deal of vice in this world is due to want of recreation. People are only now beginning to appreciate the moral value of entertainment...
...justice to the message of R. H. Stevenson, let it be said that, though not taken strongly, yet the position is well taken that "we want the personal acquaintance and intimacy of man with man; the intimacy of men with different and opposing ideas, aims, and ambitions; the intimacy of the scholar with the club man, the athlete with the musician." Immediately afterwards he placidly assures us that after all, "A university club will not give to any great extent this personal intimacy." What a chance there was here for a man to stand forth and declare that since...