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...University Glee Club of New York City will give its first concert Saturday evening in the concert hall of Madison Square Garden. This is a club of college men whose object is "to encourage male voice music of the highest excellence, to give musical receptions and concerts, and to promote social intercourse among college graduates and former college students residing in or near New York City." Besides the active members, who number 52, there is a large list of associate members. The colleges represented among the active members are: Columbia 18, Princeton 10, Yale 9, Rutgers 3, Harvard 2, Union...
...Total Abstinence League on "The Effects of Alcohol." Professor James has studied this subject very thoroughly and his lecture will be of great interest. All members of the University are cordially invited to attend. At the close of the meeting an opportunity will be given to join the league, whose platform is abstinence, while in college, from intoxicating liquors as a beverage...
...crisis of the play occurs when the Cid is called upon to avenge the insult offered to his own father by Don Gormas whose daughter he has loved for years. Here we seem to have a glimpse at the workings of his heart, he must choose either life-long disgrace or mortal conflict with the father of Chimene. He hesitates but a moment while he looks over the blasted hopes of the life which has just begun, then he turns sternly to his duty, with death or a life without Chimene as the only possible prospect for the future...
...Nation publishes under "Notes" some very interesting figures showing the influence of college-bred men on their time. These figures are based on the fifty-three Massachusetts "immortals" whose names have recently been placed on the drum of the dome of the House of Representatives in Boston...
...graduated at Harvard, and Jonathan Edwards at Yale. Among statesmen are Pickering, John and J. Q. Adams, Dane, Quincy, Everett, and Sumner of Harvard, Choate and Webster of Dartmouth, Andrew of Bowdoin, and Henry Wilson. The law is represented by Parsons, Shaw, Story and Allen, all but the last, whose selection has been criticised, being Harvard alumni. The Revolutionary generals, Knox and Lincoln, did not go to college; the two generals in the Rebellion, Devens and Bartlett, went to Harvard. Of the reformers, Wendell Phillips was Motley's classmate at Harvard, Garrison had no college education, and Horace Mann graduated...