It is very gratifying for those who watch with interest and pride Harvard's advance to the highest University grade to notice the number of seminaries and conferences which, according to the calendar, take place here this week. Last evening there were important meetings in the Modern Language, History and Science departments at which the results of advanced individual research were presented and discussed. Tonight there is a similar meeting in the Geological department, while in numerous other ones, such as in that of Classical Philology and of Philosophy, though the regular meetings are not announced in the calendar, the seminary work constantly done is of high grade. A continual comparison of the calendar with the corresponding numbers of previous years is more and more gratifying to a Harvard man as time goes. He watches the evolution of stray lectures into organized series and seminary meetings and realizes as he could not otherwise what work is being done here.
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