Advertisement

BREVITIES.

Tufts Match 93.15

McGill Match 272.36

Princeton's Guarantee 200.00

Columbia's Guarantee 100.00

--------------

Advertisement

The total receipts were $1,105.61

Balance in the treasury $32.10

IN accordance with the vote passed at the O. K. dinner last year, the committee then appointed have made arrangements for a second dinner and reunion of the past and present members of the society, on Tuesday evening, April 2, 1878, at Young's Hotel, in Boston. Rev. George L. Chaney, the first president of the society, will preside. The tickets for the dinner will be $2.50 each, and they can be obtained from any of the undersigned, by personal application or by mail. If members will purchase their tickets at an early day it will greatly facilitate the efforts of the committee to make all the arrangements satisfactory. The dinner will be served at 6 P. M. Joseph Healy, 35 Congress St., Boston; Godfrey Morse, 40 Water St., Boston; Arthur L. Ware, 67 Charles St., Boston; John T. Wheelwright, 890 Main St., Cambridge; Barrett Wendell, 9 Linden St., Cambridge.

THE subject for the next Senior Forensic, 1st division, Is ridicule a test of truth? References : Shaftesbury's "Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humor"; Akenside's "Pleasures of the Imagination," note on 3d Book; Bentham's "Works," Vol. 11. pp. 114, 360. Specimens of ridicule employed argumentatively : many of Swift's Works, The Spectator passim, British Essayists, Petroleum V. Nasby's Letters. Time, second Monday in May. 2d division : Are we justified in pursuing sports which have for their aim or issue the suffering and death of the lower animals? References : Works of Soame Jenyns, Vol. III. p. 186 et seq.; Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Vol. I. p. 341 et seq. Time, third Tuesday in May.

Advertisement