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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cambridge on Christmas Day fifty years ago, and the centre page drawing by C. M. Bill '00 are the best of these. The chief fault with the short stories and jokes is that they are based upon affairs which have no direct connection with the College. The Death of Sir Cuttenthrust, A Legend of the Third Crusade, starts ambitiously, but is not sustained and falls flat at the end. It is well set off, however, by marginal drawings. An article of unusual merit is that entitled "The Bell's Old Memories," which deals with the traditions of the College...
...article on "The Scope of Sir Henry Irving's Work," by Stanton Elliot '00, is a brief but very interesting sketch of Irving's career. There is no attempt at a deliberate analysis or criticism of the actor's art, but Irving's abilities and limitations are indicated with the clearness and fulness necessary to an understanding of his success and achievements...
...Fiske '65, by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. It is dedicated to Thomas Sergeant Perry, Professor of English Literature in the Keio Gijuku at Tokyo. The book contains fourteen articles, some of them addresses and others reviews. Among the subjects treated are the following: "Cambridge as Village and City," "Francis Parkman," "Sir Harry Vane," and "The Bacon-Shakespeare Folly...
...Chamberlin, Secretary for the Colonies, finally took up the case of the Outlanders and proposed that they either be allowed to vote, or else be given a municipal government of their own. A conference between President Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner resulted in a great deal of discussion, but no tangible result. Offers by the English government were all refused, and the alternative suggestion made by President Kruger was so hampered by conditions as to be impossible of acceptance. Mr. Chamberlin's reply to this suggestion was by no means mild, and from this time on negotiations became more...
...DEAR SIR:--In reply to your letter of the 4th instant, in which you request information as to the whereabouts of the colors and cup presented to the cruiser "Harvard" by the students of Harvard University during the war with Spain, I have to inform you that these articles are now in the museum at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Very Respectfully, [Signed] JOHN D. LONG, Secretary...