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...published "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," a collection of ballads and traditions from which he drew much of the material for his later works. His first great poem, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," was published in 1805. This was very successful and at once raised Scott to prominence. For the next two years he was at work in writing a life of Dryden and in publishing an edition of his works. In 1808 appeared "Marmion." In this Scott is at his best, he has a truly romantic subject, and his wonderful faculty of invention is at its height...
...fiction of the number is good, beginning with an excellent piece of work entitled "Love Among Arms." It is an unusual story for a college magazine, the scene being on the Austrian border, and the plot, - for extraordinary as it may be, there is a plot, - is interesting and will worked out. The sketch which follows it is light and trifling, not wholly uninteresting, but of no great merit. And then come the Kodaks, And with one exception it would be hard to accumulate a more pointless collection of sketches. The exception referred to comes first, and is ready...
...writer of the communication which we print in another column has touched on an important question, and one which the Class Day Committee is fortunately taking in hand. For a number of years past the exercises around the Tree on Class Day have been marred by spectacles which border closely on the disgraceful. The extent to which the struggles for the flowers have been carried may be well enough when there is no one in the question but men, but to the crowd of ladies who are gathered to watch the sport the sight cannot help becoming now and then...
...excitement which has prevailed in this country over the attack made on the sailors of the Baltimore on Oct. 16, 1891, said the lecturer, is the same as that which prevails in England in case of a similar attack on the Alsatian border...
Harvard men will read with pleasure a paper in the Atlantic Monthly by Prof. Shaler on "The Border State Men of the Civil War." Prof. Shaler is himself a Kentuckian, as all college men know, and therefore he is eminently fitted to give excellent final testimony on such a subject. What Prof. Shaler says on the considerations which finally influenced him to cast his lot for the North is particularly interesting...