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...best-beloved and venerated men in America. For a quarter of a century he has been a higher officer in the college, and it is two-thirds of a century since he first became connected with Harvard-first as a student and then as tutor. The book includes bright little monographs on scores of the college officers of the last half century or more, such men as Felton, Palfrey, Kirkland, Clarke, Hedge and Norton, besides many less well known. It is rich in characterization and anecdote and reminiscence, and will be treasured by all Harvard men, students or graduates...
...postgraduate." This may be all very true, but our correspondent evidently is oblivious of the fact that a great many men come to the Law School direct from preparatory schools. They come to prepare for the pursuit of a particular profession; and, although they may shine in the bright galaxy of that profession, yet it does not at all follow that they are all that a degree of Master of Arts would require them to be, or would represent them to be. The degree of A. M. is not what it used to be, but it certainly is not meant...
...freshman base-ball team at Amherst is working very hard, and the prospects are bright for a nine better than any freshman nine that Amherst has ever...
...about either author or publisher. "Childe Harvard" is a narrative in verse, and is a travesty on Byron's "Childe Harold." The poem consists of four cantos and covers about 150 duodecimo pages. It is written in a humorons strain, interspersed with some sentimentality, and contains many bits of bright verse. The story itself is very obscure, and is no more than a foundation on which the writer bases his many digressions. But it is, nevertheless, amusing, and no one can read of the old landmarks and customs, which have long since passed away, without interest and pleasure. Among other...
...outlook for a good base-ball nine this year is not very bright. A great deal of hard work must be done before we can hope to hold our own with Yale and Princeton. The loss of Wiestling Foster and Bingham will be severely felt...