The Harvard book . e University, 7 of which surroundthe College Yard. There are a number of clubs, the activities ofwhich are designed to supplement the instruction of theUniversity in various lines, — the Cercle Francaise,Deutscher Verein, Circolo Italiano, the Natural HistorySociety, etc. Every year both the French and Germanclubs produce some play or musical comedy. Of the forty or more social clubs in the collegeonly a small number are secret societies of fraternities, (Continued on pages 10 and 12.) THE A. B. A. HARVARD BOOK \/t ASSACHUSETTS HALL is the oldest building ofthe College now s
The Harvard book . e University, 7 of which surroundthe College Yard. There are a number of clubs, the activities ofwhich are designed to supplement the instruction of theUniversity in various lines, — the Cercle Francaise,Deutscher Verein, Circolo Italiano, the Natural HistorySociety, etc. Every year both the French and Germanclubs produce some play or musical comedy. Of the forty or more social clubs in the collegeonly a small number are secret societies of fraternities, (Continued on pages 10 and 12.) THE A. B. A. HARVARD BOOK \/t ASSACHUSETTS HALL is the oldest building ofthe College now standing. It was built from a grantof thirty-five hundred pounds made in 1718 by theProvince of Massachusetts and was first used as a dormi-tory. After the battle of Lexington it was used as abarracks by the Continental soldiers. About one hundred years after its erection the lowerpait of the building was given over for lectures, etc., andin 1870 the entire building was devoted to the public usesof the THE A. B. A. HARVARD BOOK so-called, and only a very small number are mutuallyexclusive. A number have club houses, but withoutdormitory accommodations. There are also a numberof clubs devoted to religious and social service of these have their headquarters in the PhillipsBrooks House, a simple and beautiful memorial to BishopBrooks. The Phillips Brooks House Association is alarge organization comprising the various constituentsocieties, and besides its different student activities, itcarries on various forms of social service and charitablework in Cambridge and Boston. Of the several musicalclubs the Pierian Sodality, an organization for orchestralmusic, founded in 1806, is probably the oldest musicalassociation in the country. Great interest is taken by the undergraduates in the several periodical publications. These are five innumber. The Harvard Crimson appears every morning,and fills the same place in the life of the student as thatof the daily
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