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...caused many new developments as well as disappointments. The drawers of the "double zero" are numerous, but refuse to consider themselves lucky. Candidates for the palatial Holworthy find their rooms in the attic of Grays, while some who were contented with the lowly upper rooms in Hollis expect to move up another story still and fix their habitation on the roof, and warm their chilled bodies around the comfortable chimneys...
...Pierian Sodality and Glee Club, last week, was the most enjoyable one that has been given here for years. Both societies showed great improvement, and especially the Pierians, who seem to have succeeded in creating quite good music in place of the woful discords we have been accustomed to expect and receive from them. The society is certainly most fortunate in possessing such an efficient leader as Mr. Dodge, and it is a source of profound regret that he is a Senior and will graduate so soon...
...little interest, inasmuch as several very important questions will be decided. The place where the regatta is to be held must be determined upon: probably Springfield, Mass., will be selected as the most advantageous situation; if so, this will give that place such a precedent that we can safely expect other races to be held there in the future...
...charity. Whatever a man's faults may be, or however contemptible, in the common sense, he may appear, if he has a kindly or unselfish trait in his character, it is that which Thackeray dwells upon, which excites his enthusiasm. Perhaps there is no quality which we should less expect to find in a cynic than that of pathos, certainly there is none in which Thackeray more excels. And, moreover, his pathos is extremely simple and unartificial. A good instance of it is the description of Colonel Newcome's death. In this there is no introduction of surroundings...
Like beauty ill-attired, our humor clothed in uncouth and meaningless phrases is undiscovered. True, with our limited experience, and wit perhaps, we can hardly expect our efforts to bear even a favorable comparison with the elaborately finished work of a Holmes or Warner, whose humor seldom offends in essence or expression; yet if we would succeed at all in this vein, our style, like theirs, must be characterized by simplicity and elegance, our productions must possess pith and raciness...