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...Bird and the Rose" and "Tailor Courage," two very bright songs, were then sung by the Glee Club-they were given with great finish and spirit and were warmly applauded. Next came the Pierian who played the familiar "Lachner March" which we heard from them last year. Resolution and strength were its dominant qualities...
...Senior Class Poem" by Mr. McCleary is a very entertaining and amusing poem and compares very favorably with like poems written of late at Harvard. The bright, vivacious style which is peculiar to this writer is not wanting here...
...There is a reality in those waves tossing and tumbling which suggests a wonderful power of description in the writer. An admirable poem on Fate follows this and shows a depth of thought seldom exhibited in college poetry. "Unappreciated Talent" is a Seri-comic story written in a very bright vein and serves to lighten up the solemnity which the preceding articles give the paper...
...Charles E. L. Wingate, the bright dramatic editor of the Boston Journal, has in press 'The Playgoers' Year-Book,' which will tell the story of the stage in Boston for the year 1887. The book will be valuable and interesting, as it will contain plots in story form of all the leading plays and operas, complete sketches of all new works with their histories, analyses of the plays and the acting, comments of many authors and actors on their own pieces, full casts of characters of the principal performances and portraits of actors and actresses, with illustrations of plays...
...degenerate. It began to lose that distinctive quality mentioned so often, which is hard to describe, but which one feels to exist the moment he begins to look through an old issue. The editorials began to be flat and vapid; the jokes harder and harder to see; the bright verse more and more scarce. The double page and then even the full-page pictures disappeared and small society pictures with jokes (?) that would fit any one of them equally well, were substituted instead. Finally, to complete the destruction of its ancient character, the Lampoon's cover was changed into...