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...Marks in English VII. ranged from 97 to 30 per cent...
...verses by students .While the volume was in the printer's hands it was discovered that one of the sonnets by an undergraduate damsel was "boned" bodily from Coleridge. Later, when the sheets of three hundred copies had been struck off, another sonnet, stolen from a well known English poet, was found. The sheets were destroyed and the disgusted printer was forced a third time to make up the book...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: After the mid-years nearly all books reserved for English courses and Sophomore Rhetoric were taken from the alcove in the reading-room. Now I suggest that a selection of the best English and American authors be made by the librarian or other competent person, and that these books be placed in some alcove. Many students, having a half hour or more of leisure, would enjoy looking over such books, whereas now we have to go through a process of red tape often consuming ten minutes, at the end of which time we are liable...
...current odds on the English 'Varsity boat race that may be quoted at this early stage rarely represent the comparative merits of the crews. "Six to four an Oxford" is the cry, but a visit to Ely will find the Cantabs very well pleased with their prospects. It is not too much to say that many are decidedly "sweet" on the crew. - [N. Y. Herald...
...Genius," says an English paper, apropos of the election of Ruskin to the Slade Professorship of Art at Oxford, "Genius is not an over-common quality in the occupants of professional chairs...