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...poetical talent in the writer. The turn of the verse is often very good and leaves the impression of strong reserve power. Little effort or straining after a striking line is noticed, and the result is a piece of work at once powerful and poetical. There are a faint rythm and music which pervade the entire poem, rendering it harmonious even when the ideas fail to please us. Mr. Felton, in a well written, concise narrative, states clearly a rather complicated story. The peculiarity of the writer's style is to the best advantage, and the story cannot but call...
Fancy a wild charge of yelling Arabs against some lonely zereba in the dusty Soudan, and some faint conception may be reached of the scene that invariably follows the close of a game on either Jarvis or Holmes. No sooner is the last man put out, or the winning run scored than the cream of Cambridge muckerdom rises, and sweeps over the barriers with the resistless power of a tidal wave, overwhelming players and spectators alike in the mad rush. Such is the state of affairs. There is a remedy. At every game a detail of Cambridge "constabulary" is hired...
...around at the poor Harvard students who have been here year after year, and yet know him only through the newspaper reports of what he is doing elsewhere, we feel sure that he would condescend to enlighten the heretics, at home instead of laboring abroad. With this suggestion and faint remonstrance, we would express the hope that the President will deem the invitation a standing one, and accept it when the labors of his position are less exacting...
...difficult. The other distances which the Greeks ran were four hundred yards, and the "long race," which was from a mile and a half to three miles. With such soft ground, the strain on the runners must have been fearful, and it was no uncommon thing for them to faint when they reached the end. No trickery of any kind was allowed, as false starts...
...were obliged to turn out and run, walk or row long distances before breakfast. when for twelve hours they had eaten nothing, and would come back faint and half famished, and with that all-gone feeling that work under such conditions brings, and which would frequently say by them all day. Then their bill of fare would contain little else than underdone beef or mutton, stale bread, a very stingy allowance of potatoes, and none at all of any other vegetables; sometimes tea, never any other drink but water, two for dinner, and one for supper, and not even this...