. The Harvard book : a series of historical, biographical, and descriptive sketches. s apetition was circulated among those known to be favorable to the project, and,with the signatures of more than half the class attached, was presented to theFaculty, and approved at their last regular meeting of the College year. Early in the succeeding autumn a notice on the University bulletin-boardsummoned the petitioners for a new Sophomore Society to assemble in Massa-chusetts Hall; officers were elected, a committee to prepare a constitution andby-laws appointed, and two weeks after the commencement of
. The Harvard book : a series of historical, biographical, and descriptive sketches. s apetition was circulated among those known to be favorable to the project, and,with the signatures of more than half the class attached, was presented to theFaculty, and approved at their last regular meeting of the College year. Early in the succeeding autumn a notice on the University bulletin-boardsummoned the petitioners for a new Sophomore Society to assemble in Massa-chusetts Hall; officers were elected, a committee to prepare a constitution andby-laws appointed, and two weeks after the commencement of the academic year1868 - 9, the new Sophomore Society, the Everett Athenaeum, was an accom-plished fact. The Athenaeums first year was marked by vigor and activity in all depart-ments of society work. The literary exercises were intrusted to a special com-mittee, who exerted themselves to make the weekly programmes varied and in-teresting ; and a paper by one of the three editors was read every fortnight. Atthe close of the year a successful public meeting was held in Lyceum Hall. EVERETT ATHE1NLEUM. ,r, before a select audience, and the difficult and delicate task of perpetuating theSociety in the next Sophomore class successfully accomplished. The future ofthe Athenaeum was now assured. The Faculty assigned a hall in the Collegebuildings for its meetings, and the successive classes have labored to maintainthe high reputation with which it was started. The Society met first in Massachusetts 19, the recitation-room at the easternend of the building. In 1870 the College granted them the upper hall of HoldenChapel, a large and commodious room, with seats rising in rows to the rear, capableof seating one hundred and fifty, and an ample stage for theatrical exhibitions. By the constitution, the officers of the Society hold their places during oneCollege term, and re-election to the same office is forbidden. Provision is madefor the continuation of the Society from year to year, as
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