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...Harvard, I had exalted ideas of accomplishing great deeds on land and water. I first essayed football. One afternoon sufficed to convince me that I was not a second Herbert Leeds, and that frequent collisions with mother earth were not becoming to my style of beauty. To this day my neck has not recovered from the twist it received that afternoon when I rolled on Holmes Field beneath Harrington...
...woods about our house were infested by numerous fierce and carnivorous brutes, but as one had never been seen on the premises, I grew very courageous, and often wandered beneath the arching trees, culling flowers, like Persephone on the Sicilian meads. But one day I strayed too far, alas! and found myself, not as I had supposed, within call of the mansion, but in unknown, unexplored forest depths. I called, but I could elicit no response. In dumb despair I hurried through unfamiliar paths, hoping to regain the clearing. In vain! Fate had ordained otherwise. Weary, helpless, I abandoned myself...
...been crowded more than ever into the old halls. As nearly all the courses in History are lecture courses, it is of great importance that rooms suitable for lectures should be provided. In Harvard 6, for example, where there are three consecutive hours of lectures every other day, there is not a single desk, and we have to take notes as well as we can with our hands full of books. If the authorities have knowingly sanctioned such an arrangement as this, they deserve unqualified censure; and if they have done it through oversight, they should hasten to correct...
...gentlemen who have undertaken the actors' parts met at Professor White's house, yesterday evening, for a preliminary reading, in order to get the pronunciation in good form, before beginning to commit their parts. Hereafter they are expected to learn a definite number of lines each day, until they know their parts...
...first performance will be some time in May. It would perhaps be well to give a "benefit" performance during Class Day week, and devote the proceeds to a fund for buying casts, &c., which are much needed in the Greek Department...