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...wish to call attention to the book placed at Bartlett's by the manager of the eleven, for the Thanksgiving game. Up to the present time very few names have been put down. We hope, however, that as many men as can possibly attend this game, will put their names down during the week, as the team should receive the support of a large number. Let all those who intend to go sign their names at once and by their example encourage others to do the same...
...Springfield Republican waxes indignant at the character of the songs recently introduced into the public schools of that town. "Over the Garden Wall" and "Evelina" meet with its decided disapprobation for school children. It continues : "In defense of the song-book it should be said that the music of much of it is really meritorious. As every high-school boy is supposed to aspire to a collegiate education, he may count it fortunate that this book reveals the longings of the average dissatisfied college boy, as witness this yearning for me tamorphosis...
...Springfield Republican waxes indignant at the character of the songs recently introduced into the public schools of that town. "Over the Garden Wall" and "Evelina" meet with its decided disapprobation for school children. It continues : "In defense of the song-book it should be said that the music of much of it is really meritorious. As every high-school boy is supposed to aspire to a collegiate education, he may count it fortunate that this book reveals the longings of the average dissatisfied college boy, as witness this yearning for metamorphosis...
...order to combine with the foregoing lesson in natural history a harmless drill in mathematics, and so give the book value as a compendium of musical forms, a chant is inserted, having for its words the pathetic trilogy of the 'three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso...
...WEDNESDAY.Latin Readings. The Fall of Troy. Virgil's Aeneid, Book II. Mr. Charles Parker. Sever...