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...unsound; to magnify the merits of a certain Boston University critic, whose ignorance is only equalled by his audacity; to depreciate men who, like Dr. Furness, can really add something of value to Shaksperian literature; but we believe that those admirers and those critics will, in the end, be bitterly disappointed. Careful scholarship has been ridiculed as pedantry before this, but it has at last invariably won just recognition. We are sorry that the Advocate has been so grossly misinformed as to the purposes of the New Shakspere Society and the conditions of Shakspere criticism at the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...passion for Adelinda Higginsworth, and was consequently in a very sensitive and susceptible condition. On entering the room I succeeded by a clever move in giving Lardy a place next to Carolinda's grandmother, and so I had his duck all to myself. I perceived a bookcase at the end of the room, and said I was so much interested in literature. Consequently we walked across, and she showed me Hawthorne's "Marble Faun," which she had herself illustrated. "Yes," said I, "Rome is a great financial and commercial metropolis, and is also the city of the soul. Miss Wiggleson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

MEMBERS of Class '81, who intend to order from the Class Photograph List, will please send in their Lists before the end of the week; and those who have received satisfactory proofs and not accepted them, will please do so at once, so that no delay will take place in finishing the Class Photographs. All who intend ordering Albums will do well to look over the lot of fine English Albums which Mr. Notman has in his Studio, 7 Brattle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

Roundsman O'Phlynn of the 8th Precinct was the first to notice the destruction. About 2 A.M. he saw a number of figures steal stealthily along the west side of Acropolis Avenue and turn into Marathon Street. On returning from the other end of his beat and reaching Marathon Street, corner of Omicron, he perceived, to his surprise, that nearly all the lamps in the street were extinguished, and on his stopping for a moment to view the scene he heard a crash close behind him, and saw the only remaining lamp on Marathon Street - the one in front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TRUE STORY OF THE MUTILATION OF THE HERMAE. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...gentle rap. His door opens slowly, and an ear-trumpet is thrust in. Attached to the little end is a proctor (proctors always come out at the "little end of the horn"). He said, "Too much noise - your name, Mr. Persimmons, please - report - Dean - to-morrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOOTSY SWIDGER'S VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »