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...third of its regular meets, this evening at 8 o'clock in the pool of the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. Besides the two relay races, the events will be as follows: a fifty-yard dash, hundred-yard dash, two-hundred and twenty-yard swim, twenty-yard breast-stroke swim, fancy dive and plunge...
...scene is laid. The general conditions under which the English settlers lived during the French and Indian Wars are interestingly sketched, and the account of a sudden attack upon the colonists fort has real dramatic force, skillfully manipulated so as to lead to a conflict of motives in the breast of one of the defenders. One or two of the characterizations are somewhat perfunctory, and the language is here and there a little too consciously archaic: but Mr. Grandgent's persons, no less than Mr. Townsend's, live and act like human beings
...make phrases out of the well-worn vocabulary of current criticism, and a need to consider more curiously what, if anything, his words mean. Take these sentences: "An auster jealousy best defines the attitude towards his nurse. In proportion as this revelation grows upon him, Mr. Noyes will triumphantly breast the temptations of 'recherche' work and the weak offences that mar the early flights of budding poets." Ten minutes of hard meditation on these words will help their writer to avoid "the weak offences that mar the early flights of budding" critics, if one may adapt some of his superabundant...
Major-General H. W. Lawton L. S. ex-'68, died at San Mateo in the Philippines yesterday, from the effects of a gun shot wound in the breast, received while at the head of his troops. He left the Law School to join the army...
Minerva's role is the color of wine less with strong high lights almost white on the back and on certain main folds. Her sandals are golden, as is all that can be seen of the aegis which she wears on her breast. The platform on which the figure stands is opalescent white, while the column has a golden tone, shot with green. In size, the window is seven feet seven inches high and five feet wide. On the front of the platform is the simple statement, "In memory of G. C. Felton...