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...season of the year, when everybody is thirsty and the college pumps are used to their utmost capacity. Seriously, we congratulate the league on having procured such eminent speakers as will address the college to-night in Sanders. We are sure that Mrs. Livermore and Col. Higginson will not fail to draw out a large audience; and we believe that all who can, should attend, although it be only to see and "hear" these two eminent speakers of the day. Then, too, the cause which they will advocate and the arguments which they are to present will be well worth...
...strongest, is not equal to the steps by which we approach it, and the book leaves a sense of something wanting, a promised strength which is not forthcoming. It also lacks unity, and the first chapters, treating of the boyhood of Beverly, present anecdotes of him, which entirely fail to delineate his character with any vividness. One might also think that the Italian language was not a common study for a boy of ten or twelve, in the New England of fifty years...
...feel sure that the college will not fail to take advantage of the opportunity offered to attend the course of lectures now being delivered by one of our most esteemed instructors. The course of lectures on "Egypt and Her Monuments," delivered by Professor Cooke in 1883, was most enjoyable, as was shown by the crowded audiences in attendance at each lecture. The second lecture in the course will be delivered this evening...
...pitch of dramatic strength which the plot requires, and the book seems at times strangely to lack a centain intensity of emotion which it ought to possess. In several of the climances that occur in the course of the story, the feeling is not sustained enough, and the situations fail to give their proper effect-the real effect produced on the reader being a slight sense of artificiality, Such a description of Beverly's character as is given in the first chapter by repeating a few stories of his childhood seems not only totally unnecessary, but entirely out of accord...
...Delano, W. P. Homans, M. S. Latham, R. L. McCook, J. G. Mumford, J. Simpkins, E. Sutton, A. Crocker, F. S. Taylor, G. C. Adams, E. L. Winthrop, O. Ames, D. C. Clark, J. D. Bradley, Barnes, Borland. They are requested to be at the gymnasium without fail at 10 A. M., to receive instructions...