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...Composite Photograph of the November Century" are very bright and introduce some neat plays on words. "La Corrida de Los Toros," a story of a bull-fight in South American, is well told and ends in quite dramatic fashion. It can hardly boast of much originality, however. "A Backward Glance" is very amusing. "Roses and Cypress" is a sympathetically told tale of the exciting love of a pretty Italian peasant girl and the misery it brought her. It smacks a little of the hero and Leander. One lays down this number with the agreeable feeling of having been entertained...
...from New York, especially when that state has two very large colleges, Columbia and Cornell, besides a host of smaller ones. Illinois is showing up extremely well, and Colorado, which is not on the list, has contributed this year as many freshmen as California. The Southern states are very backward in sending men here, none of them contributing more than two. In the West, however, Harvard seems to be popular...
Yale isn't backward in tooting her little horn when occasion offers. At the alumni banquet in New York the other night, Mr. Depew allowed that Harvard and Princeton might lock horns on the great questions of destiny in the next world, but that Yale is satisfied for the present with giving the country sound law through her Chief Justice Waite, enacting wise laws by her Senator Evarts, constructing a navy worthy of our rank among nations and our proper defence through her Secretary of the Navy, Whitney, and rising to the best traditions of the diplomacy, scholarship...
...comprises a brief of all the athletic events which took place during the past year, together with an authentic list of all the members of the various college societies. In obtaining these names, however, much necessary trouble is experienced, as the secretaries of the different associations are very backward in sending them in. This should be done as soon as possible, as the editors are very anxious to have the Index ready for publication in a few days...
Then, as now, may the graduates of Harvard look backward with exultation and thanksgiving, and forward with confidence and high resolve...