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VESPER SERVICES.

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In recent years it has become rather the pose of many Harvard undergraduates to profess ignorance of everything in Cambridge not intimately connected with their pursuit of happiness. At the mention of glass flowers or vesper services, they assume an intensely cynical look and say that these are excellent things to amuse one's family, but really hardly worthy of note. They are rather proud of this absurd affectation, and consider themselves quite superior if they get away from Cambridge without making the most of their opportunities.

If such men could be made to realize what the vesper services are really like, we think enough of them to believe that they would attend with moderate regularity. For on every Thursday afternoon during the winter there is an opportunity to hear a very good choir, trained by a skilled leader, render a uniformly excellent program of spiritual music. The men who conduct, the services are always well worth hearing, and the time of day cannot be regarded with the aversion which is bestowed on the hour of morning prayers. Afternoons spent in this way will be remembered with pleasure long after the memory of the matinee in town has faded away.

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