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...Horace. That classic writer was always a favorite of the learned. The perfection of his style, the admirable truth and discrimination of his critical judgment, the charming companionable familiarity of his Odes, the thoroughly human feeling which pervades them, qualified by the sensitive fastidiousness inseparable from the highest cultivation, - fit him for the scholar's intimate and the student's guide. Few could appreciate these excellences so fully as Mr. Sargent. He assimilated all that was most characteristic and captivating in this delicious writer, whose fascination surpass that of poets of far loftier pretensions...
...Buffalo Express in an issue in the early part of last week saw fit to publish the following statement...
Work has been out of doors for the last few days, though neither Jarvis nor Holmes is in fit condition. On Jarvis the diamond has been drained and scraped, but the rest of the field is too muddy and bids fair to remain so a week or more. Most of the work is in batting on Holmes field. Three nets were up yesterday and the freshman candidates did the pitching. The number of candidates will be reduced to the minimum very shortly...
...tendency, however among some of the colleges to follow in the steps of the National League. Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and a few others, have agreed to stand on the old footing. Apparently their policy is a definite one and we sincerely hope that all amateurs may see fit to make their own regulations and not to follow unquestion ably the whi+++s of professional baseball magnates...
...object of the Theatre of Art and Letters, to which attention is called in another column, is so highly recommended by prominent members of the faculty that it seems fitting to call attention of the students to the first performance to-night. It is largely through the efforts of Harvard men that this work has been undertaken. As stated already the ultimate object is to establish a standard theatre, where plays written by the most famous American authors can be put on the stage for the public without undergoing the savage overhauling and distortions of unliterary managers. In other countries...