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Charles R. Giddings '87, of Beverly, was drowned in Lake Winnepesankee on the seventeenth of August. In company with a friend he had taken a number of poor boys from Boston to camp out on the lake. While on a steamer excursion, one of the boys fell overboard. Without hesitation Giddings plunged in to save him, but the boy pulled him down, and help was too late...
...duty of the Tennis Association to see that players who pay for the use of courts (and pay such a price) shall find those courts in good condition. As it is now, unless a man is willing to be a burden to his neighbors or to hire a small boy to chase balls for him, his own life will be a burden to him. Cannot the proper authorities give a fair return for the money paid to the Tennis Association...
...Wordsworth are, as it were, bracketed. To know the poet it is necessary to see the man. His boyhood was passed in close contact with nature, he came to have an intimate acquaintance with all the lake country, and to love it with the healthy love of a country boy without moody self-consciousness or sentimental effusiveness. It was the all important period of his life when his philosophy of life and poetry was determined...
...given to gather up the picturesqueness of the past of Scotland and hand down to us in his poems and his novels, the history of the heroic deeds of the North from the time of Robert Bruce and William Wallace. It has been said that Scott was a dull boy but nothing can be farther from the truth. He was early driven by lameness to seek occupation different from those of other boys, and he turned to literature. He was descended from a long line of true Scotch men and he loved Scotland and everything about it. His eyes...
...Locke has been very successful in preparing for this cantata, and the singing of yesterday reflects great credit on his careful and conscientious work. The solo singing was excellent, and that of Newton Wilcox remarkable for its good taste and expression. He is one of the best boy sopranos in Boston and he sang with expression, being especially successful in the recitatives and the beautiful duet "Love divine!" Mr. Parker and Mr. Meyn were all that could be desired. The singing of the choruses was marked by decision and careful phrasing. At the end of the service the congregation, which...