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Professor Wendell has no author or group of authors that he is especially bent on praising or dispraising. Some individuals, as is natural, he handles better than others. His estimate of Edgar Allen Poe is excellent for its swift comprehension. And it is quite in contrast with the treatment that Poe has received from many impressionistic critics. This chapter and Professor Gates's essay supplement each other...
...followed by Mr. William G. Thayer, headmaster of St. Marks' School, Southboro, and Mr. Edgar H. Nichols of the Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, both of whom showed the evils of "cramming" for examinations, and suggested various changes in the preparation of candidates for college examinations...
...arranging his characters Shakspere placed one set of virtues against a corresponding set of vices. Lear's two older daughters, Goneril and Regan, are contrasted to their younger sister Cordelia, and in the same way the character of Edgar, the Duke's lawful son, is contrasted with that of Edmund the bastard...
...closest mayoralty contests ever held in Cambridge, Edgar R. Champlin L. '80, mayor during the past year, was re-elected yesterday. He defeated his principal opponent, David T. Dickinson '88, by a majority of about eight hundred votes. The city voted no-license for the fourteenth successive year by a majority of one thousand. W. H. Lewis L. '95, Thorndike Spalding '95, J. D. Merrill '89, and Stoughton Bell '96, were elected members of the Common Council...
...graduates of Yale, Edgar T. Heermance '97, and Murray S. Howland '97, have been awarded the first and second prize offered to students in Biblical Literature by the American Institute of Sacred Literature...