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...tiresome details of the present realistic tendency in literature. The two other tales, The Wanderings of Alexis II. and the Two Margarets are also vigorous and interesting. The verse contributions to the number are a rondeau. "Ah! Bye-gone Days," a pastoral, and two bits of airy song, entitled "August-October" and "The Difference." In an editorial, the members of the sophomore class are criticised for their lack of readiness to contribute...
...Charlestown show that he was received here. Let us go back to 1605 and to Stratford-upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Stratford. We may stretch a point in trying to associate together the name of William Shakespeare, the first name in English literature, with that of John Harvard, the most august one in the history of American education. We know that at this very time William Shakespeare had finished his career as an actor in London, and giving himself to the writing of plays, had eclipsed everybody. He was longing to acquire the competence that would allow him to retire...
...seen, but whose provisions have come down to us, in the grateful comment of his friends and of those of the college. And so the figure of John Harvard rises before us to-day, doubly sacred, very likely for the scant knowledge which we have of him, lofty and august in the ideal which he represents, the gift of the great University on the Cam to this other great University of the Charles...
...admit of the protrusion of his head. It gives one quite a start to look up and see the gray, mossy slope of the roof adorned by one human head, red faced, fat cheeked, with huge spectacles on and with an umbrella raised to protect it from the hot August sun. Whether the heroic watcher was standing on a stringer or whether kind hands supported him beneath, or whether he was prosaically seated on a tub, could be the subject only of the forlornest conjecture. The head alone was visible; and the head told no tales...
...celebration began at eight o'clock Monday evening, August 2, with a reception, by the municipal authorities, of the distinguished visitors, among whom were the Crown Prince of Germany and the Grand Duke of Baden. The exercises were brief, consisting mostly of music by the band and the singing of a hymn written especially for the occasion by the late lamented Scheffel...