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...nightfall then Lee held the same ground; although both sides were exhausted. McClellan was too much disorganized to attack the next day, and accordingly he waited for reinforcements. But meanwhile Lee fell back across the Potomac. McClellan's fault was not failure to attack again, but to attack one day earlier, while one-third of Lee's forces were at Harper's Ferry...
Punctuation is still a lost art to a few society lights, thinks the Boston Beacon. An elderly lady who had invited a favorite nephew to spend New Year's day with her did not understand from his written apology that he was suffering from an attack of erysipelas. The note read: "Dear aunt, I should certainly have been with you had I been well; even now I am in great pain while I write with my nose." It is presumable that a man who could successfully accomplish the feat of writing with his nose would be easily forgiven...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Yesterday's CRIMSON contained an attack upon the English department which seems to me very questionable, not to say unjust. The writer has left no doubt as to what course he attacks; it is, of course, English 8, and the author assailed is Byron. I believe the writer to be in the wrong when he says that too much time is given to rehearsing the petty incidents of an author's life; for what is there that so excites an interest in an author as to obtain a knowledge of his private life, and then to observe...
...authorized by President Eliot to state that the item that appeared in yesterday's Boston Herald regarding smallpox at Harvard, is a misrepresentation, having but slight foundation. One of our students was conveyed to the college hospital, having a slight attack of scarlet fever. By the article of the Herald reporter, this indisposition was magnified into smallpox. We have condemned this failing of student reporters before, but this latest example of greed for news, exaggeration, and total unreliability, deserves more than condemnation. The item in question will be copied far and wide, and will cause needless consternation. A desire...
...falsification. Facts may be disgraceful, but it is the business of the reporter to give them, not to express them. If a reporter cannot tell facts in an interesting way, he must make room for somebody who can. Allow me to say that I think this anonymous attack on the character of well-known gentlemen is far more disgraceful than any sensational story I have ever seen printed about Harvard. I hope that neither jealousy nor any other motive may lead to its repetition...