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Passing from Bolivia to Peru, the traveller notices at once the remains of the ancient race of Incas. "The Stonehenge of America," a curious collection of huge carved boulders, stands in the middle of a great, brown plain. These ruins, much resembling the stonehenge of England, were probably built in the fifteenth century. The method by which these immense rocks were cut to fit into each other so exactly is still a mystery to archaeologists...
From the stonehenge the lecturer proceeded to Arequipa, the site of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory. This town, although far from any other settlement of size, is much more advanced than the cities to the south. The sanitary condition is unusual for South America, and there is a club established by the members of the observatory staff. Professor Brewster concluded his lecture with views and a brief description of Lima, the mountain capital of Peru...
...here the poets and story-writers take up the theme. The two stories are no better, and not much worse, than the run of college football tales. Mr. Moore's "A Pack of Cards" lumbers heavily over a comedy situation, with inadequate characterization and conventional dialogue. "Me and Her" goes to the other extreme, being rather cleverly written about little or nothing. The reader, however, becomes weary of the coquettish parentheses addressed to him. "The Spectators" is weak description wherein exaggeration does duty as humor...
...verse is very much better. The first stanza of Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's "The Game" is as good as any undergraduate verse one is likely to see in a long time, and the entire poem, though it does not keep up to this high level, is notable in its sincerity and vigor. Mr. Pulsifer's "The Riderless Horse" presents a striking idea with effective brevity, the difficult verse-form is fairly well handled, and the phrasing is at times admirable. The same writer's "Third Down," however, suffers from its close resemblance to four lines of Browning's "Meeting...
...long period of preliminary work in preparation for the final games was brought to an end by the defeat of Brown by the score of 23 to 0. The large score was a surprise, but it was due not so much to any unusual weakness in the visiting eleven as to the power and speed of the Yale backfield. The individual playing of the Yale line was remarkable and often brilliant, but lacked unity. Philbin, in the latter part of the second half, caught a punt on his own 35-yard line, and, with tremendous speed, dodged through the whole...