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...candidates - would do some good certainly, but how great in America is questionable. That some change is needed is clear. The Universities and Colleges have been steadily raising the standard of admission, and increased exertion is required of the student who wishes to go through college at all, and far more to get through with any distinction or practical benefit...
...SMALL audience assembled yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel to listen to the competing candidates for the Boylston prizes. The declamations were far superior to those of last year. Out of the thirty competitors, five were awarded prizes. The two first prizes were assigned to E. R. Fenollosa, '74, and T. F. Taylor, '75. F. Dumaresque, A. B. Ellis, and W. H. Holman, all of '75, obtained second prizes. The selection of Mr. Fenollosa afforded excellent opportunities for a display of forcible oratory, which were fully improved. As a dramatic recitation, the rendering of a selection from Shakespeare's King Lear...
...cost of Memorial Hall thus far is said to be about...
...music of the ocean far away...
...spirit which leads him to deal in the appetizing metaphor of "the cold shoulder" rather than in the "dry bones" of the ancient Jeremiah. It is impossible to surmise how much is implied by that exceedingly dubious expression, "the cold shoulder"; but the meaning cannot be extended so far as to include the Northern capital, which is the life of the South at the present time. The writer, if he is interested in facts, will also find that when the Mayor of New Orleans appealed to the North in behalf of the sufferers by a destructive flood in that locality...