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...conscientious performance of the duty laid upon him to be a great poet quand meme, he seems diligently intent on producing fire by the primitive method of rubbing the dry sticks of his blank verse one against the other, while we stand in shivering expectation of the flame that never comes...
...caused yesterday morning a few minutes before twelve, by a small fire in the upper entry of University Hall. The fire occurred in the large wooden box outside the door among a large heap of waste paper, and for a few minutes made a dense smoke, with considerable flame. Fortunately there was a recitation being held at the time on the same floor, for had not some of the students perceived the smoke, the fire would doubtless have gone to the attic immediately overhead, thereby causing considerable damage. As it was, the fire was extinguished with a few pails...
...Merritt, instructor in Physics at Cornell, has lately photographed the manometric flame,-something that has never before been successfully done...
...Struggle with Fate," by Mr. M. O. Wilcox is a smoothly written story of excellence in the descriptions. The closing passage, portraying the vast snow covered plain and the bursting into flame of Ornoff's love, is notably effective. The story might be accused of a tendency towards sensationalism, but not sufficiently to detract from its merits...
...Story of Delphine" is an interesting Mexican tale. The idea, although not original, is well brought out, and the "picture of that quick Spanish flame" is well drawn...