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...satisfied in our minds with the way in which the inquiry into the management of the hall was hushed up. We think that if the hall is to be a success next year, there must be a complete change of affairs in its management. There seems to be a general misunderstanding in regard to the complaints about the hall. The authorities are apt to think that because there has been but little complaint lately that the food has been satisfactory; far from it. We have been living on poor food for the last month or more because we were laboring...
...have before remarked, some of the shorter poems have serious faults, but they are only natural ones that experience would surely remove. In general there is a healthy imagery, a delicious freedom from that morbid, sickly perversion of aestheticism that is so much sought after by writers of rhyme at the present time. The poems are the offsprings of an unsullied imagination and of an intellect more vigorous and growing than subtle or matured; the poet thinks of something else than garden-wall or opera-box love; there comes home to him those other feelings and impulses of youth...
...races, and, as a consequence, they gathered in large numbers about the boat-house and at the Beacon-street wall. Among the spectators were a goodly number of ladies, many of whom displayed the familiar crimson parasols and who joined heartily in the cheers for the college crews. The general state of the weather was delightful, but on the return course the oarsmen were seriously interfered with by the stiff breeze that blew up the river, while in the upper part of the course the water was quite lumpy, so that several of the boats shipped water. In view...
...General De Cissey died in Paris yesterday...
...appears in a prominent place in a New York daily. The story is very edifying. The fable of the badger reads: "The badger escaped from its owner one morning, and took refuge in the catch-basin to a sewer, corner of State and Chapel streets, and the police and general public were much interested in effecting the capture of the animal. Crowds of men and boys gathered at the sewer entrance for several days in the vain hope of recovering the property. In the meantime the badger frequently showed himself at the mouth of the catch-basin, always retreating when...