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...gone to whittling the tree or otherwise mutilating it with edged tools; or if the early College presidents had been in the habit of hanging their monthly wash upon its swaying branches, - then, and in any similar case of sacred historic association, not only would I decry any attempt of ruthless vandalism to bring its existence to a premature end, but I would suggest that to its topmost boughs there should be attached a series of stone tablets on which these various interesting reminiscences should be engraved in letters at least half an inch in length...
Edmund and I had arranged to climb Red Hill together some time during his stay. It was a pleasant tramp, - some ten miles to the summit and back, - and the beautiful September weather made him very anxious to attempt it. I was less eager, for obvious reasons. We started off in the afternoon. Edith came to the doorway just as we took the road. We looked back, and she waved her hand at us. It was the last time - except once...
...choruses the liberty of an octave was allowed, and where there was a dialogue, both actors and chorus sang. In this last case the chorus is termed commatic. The tones were regulated by certain nomes not extant which were probably stiff and inharmonious. We have given up all attempt to reproduce Greek music, but if the actors could have trusted themselves to sing, or at least to intone, the analogy of the Greek stage would have been more strictly followed. As it was, the actors said their part and were answered by a singing chorus. We now see what...
...Vassar Miscellany.We dare not attempt, within our limited space, to boast of dealing justly by the three "literary" magazines, - the Cornell Review, the Nassau Lit., and the Yale Lit. We dare not award the palm of superiority to any one, when all are so excellent. But the whole system of such undergraduate "magazining" seems to us radically wrong, and therefore are we no impartial judge. The Review publishes more good poetry; the Yale Lit. excels in literary criticism, Notabilia, and Portfolio; the Nassau inclines both to philosophy and to legendary matter of a ghostly sort, induced, as the Acta would...
...Field, '84, and H. F. Mandell, '84, fell out at 6 ft. 6 in.; C. H. W. Foster, '81, at 6 ft. 7 in.; and H. R. Woodward, '84, at 6 ft. 8 in., which height was cleared by G. B. Morison, '83, at his second attempt, the cup therefore being awarded him. G. H. Heilbron, '83, the Harvard light-weight champion, and O. J. Lowman, '84, were the entries for the featherweight sparring, Heilbron again proving victorious, though Lowman was plucky and quick. The tug of war between '81 and '82 was won easily by the Seniors, who pulled...