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...Perkins, Bright...
Perhaps the most original bit of prose in the number is "A Plea for the Higher Education of Apparitions." In it there are several bright ideas and humorous turns of thought, the slight plot of the whole hinging on the ignorance which a spirit-visitor displays in not knowing the difference in time between London and New York...
...prospects for a successful year are very bright. Already there is a membership of 427, or 200 more than last year at the same time, and the business is over $1,500 more...
...season began with the victory in foot ball and fittingly ended with the glorious record at New London. Upon the latter achievement we want to take the first opportunity of congratulating the men who brought it about. The outlook in rowing at the beginning of the year was not bright, and the discouragements which Captain Perkins and his men met throughout the year were many. Yet the college was behind them, and they...
...literary vanity (which, mind, we do not say they possess), we have no occasion to cross them. On the contrary, we have nothing but praise for such dainty bits of character delineation as "My Village," "An Original Darkey," "Sancta Simplicitas," "My First Psychological Experience," "A Side Light,"- for such bright and original descriptions as "Youth," "In the Crowd," "A Face," "Broken Butterfly"- for such an able biographical paper as that on "Newman and Kingsley,"- and many other pieces delicate in fancy and execution, of which only lack of space (that never-failing friend of the newspaper critic) prevents mention...