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...late Mr. Benjamin Russell, well known as the editor, during many years, of the Columbian Centinel, used to relate that he was then a boy at school in Boston; and the pedagogue, when he heard that morning of Lord Percy's sally, laconically remarked, "Boys! War's begun. School's done. You may go." Russell followed the soldiers out through Roxbury; but when he returned on that evening, he was refused entry into the city, and was obliged to remain nearly a year, until the evacuation of Boston in March following, beyond the ken of his parents...
...Bowdoin Orient failed to understand our article on "Gentilshommes, Bourgeois, Artistes," but found many typographical errors therein. We are sorry that we went in too deep for the Orient, but think that the typographical errors which so troubled the mind of their exchange editor must have had a subjective, rather than an objective existence...
Z.MILTON, March 1, 1875.TO THE EDITOR OF THE MAGENTA...
...presenting this number of the Magenta, the first under the new board, the Editors of '76 and '77 express their sincere regret at the loss of the outgoing Editors, who have done so much for the paper. The new Editors are: W. M. Cutler, Truman Heminway, Joshua Stetson, Barrett Wendell, R. H. Young. - Business Editor, A. B. Denny...
...EDITOR MAGENTA: "Percy Starke" sends this ingenious Chess puzzle, found pasted on the back of an old Chess Book. By beginning at the right word, and going from square to square as a Knight moves, he found eight lines of poetry...