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That life's dear dream's fulfilment so should fail...
...opportunity be offered to those desiring original archaeological study abroad, but the interests of archaeology will be wonderfully promoted by the practical training of young men in the work. Such is the immediate purpose for which the fund is to be used. But in case the Archaeological School should fail to be a success, or should for any reason pass out of existence in course of time, the money will revert to the original subscribers. In the case of Harvard it is to found a Sophocles scholarship, to be awarded to the man who passes the best examination...
...indeed to be no really good poetical translation of the play, so that it is to be regretted that a careful prose translation, such as that which Professor White read some months ago, was not adopted. The book, however, will be a pleasant souvenir of a performance which cannot fail to have made a deep impression on all who have seen it, or who are to see it to-night and to-morrow...
...hoped that an intercollegiate tennis tournament may be arranged before the close of the season, as a series of matches in a game so universally popular could not fail to prove of great interest to all collegians...
...remarks of our valued cotemporary in regard to our defence of the New Shakspere Society are both facetious and irrelevant. We fail to see what the Aristotelian ???, or a Chinese pick-pocket, or the Royal Asiatic Society has to do with the subject in hand. Nor should our valued cotemporary complain of "athletic tabular views and ornithological ghost-stories," so long as they furnish a text for its widely famed humorous pieces. And when, as a parting thrust, it playfully insinuates that the Crimson is beyond its depth in speaking of matters Shaksperian, it is guilty of a degree...