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...wretched exhibition of ball-playing was given on Jarvis yesterday by the senior and junior nines. Unless the men on class teams will take more pains to practice, the future of baseball here at least in the class games, is not very bright. Yesterday's exhibition was not a ball game, it was a farce...
...College Kodaks" are very good, best of all is the fourth. The second and the last are the poorest. "The Artistic Temperament" by Townsend Walsh is one of the best things of the number. It is a story of a troup of wandering actors and is told in a bright and entertaining style. "The Sudden Conversion of Deacon Enoch Grubb" is rather weak and flat. There is not much of a plot and the form is not good enough to make the story interesting reading. "Reaping Tares" by H. H Chamberlain is a very pretty story. "Sleep...
...first story is "The Football Game" Which is interesting enough till the end is reached. There it weakens and concludes in a very flat manner. "Fantine" by A. C. Train is the best story in the number. It is bright and very well told. "The Long and Short of It" is very clever though a little improbable. "Miss Legion" by H. H. Chamberlain, who has just been elected an editor of the Advocate, a society story, is well conceived and is written in an entertaining style. The "College Kodaks" are very good, except the one about the faro table which...
...whole, the prospects of ninety-six are bright for success in the games with the Princeton freshmen. Only two necessities are apparent. The nine ought to have a regular coach, to make them play with snap and to teach them how to bat with accuracy, and the class ought to give more support to a team of such good promise. Let the class present a good delegation at future games...
...admitted to the bar. About this time he fell in love but he was doomed to bitter disappointment which made a deep impression on him, and lent to many of his works a peculiar shade of pensive melancholy. In 1797, however, he married a bright and pretty French girl, and he seems to have been happy with her. In 1796 he began to write. His works are naturally divided into two periods, the first from 1796 to 1814. the period of his poetry, the second from 1814 to 1832 in which he wrote all the Waverly novels...