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...Boston correspondent of the Springfield Republican is inclined to doubt the success of Life, the proposed publication of several Harvard graduates. He says: "They are all bright and promising penmen; but yet they are amateurs, mere fledgings in journalism, and it will be interesting to observe what sort of a paper they will produce. They may invite the criticism that Langtry has received. One cannot easily become a star without some preliminary training. And journalism is no boys' play. These young men may discover this. If they escape it, they will not only be happy, but very lucky. Their success...
...weekly paper is to be started in New York, the first of the year, which will be called Life, and is to be run and contributed to by the bright set of young Harvard men who have distinguished themselves of late in the lightest literature, among them E. S. Martin, who wrote "Sly Ballades in Harvard China;" Robert Grant, author of the "Frivolous Girl;" Attwood, who wrote "Manners and Customs of ye Harvard Student," and Wheelwright, author of "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge." Mr. Mitchell, who wrote the "Summer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert...
...Barton, Elliott Bright...
...genial sky and favorable breezes there is something very alluring to strangers in the series of struggles to be witnessed in the Gut, the Plough and the Long Reach, from the vantage-ground of Grassy Corner or Ditton Meadows. Long lines of eager young gownsmen, each in the bright uniform of his college club, rush panting up the tow-path, uttering a babel of discordant but exhilarating cries of encouragement to their champions on the water. One by one the graceful craft appear in sight, the oarsmen swinging like a piece of perfect mechanism, the blades flashing in the evening...
...five minutes after ten last evening the sullen fire-cracker sounded its note of alarm in the yard. Windows were hastily opened and anxious heads thrust out; hurrying crowds gathered at the scene. A bright light illuminated the eastern side of the quadrangle, and in dangerous proximity to University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared...