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...good lamented some trifling...
...Barlow falls an easy prey to the author's talent for ridicule, and becomes in farce what Mr. Pecksniff is in comedy. The stories which this gentleman was so fond of narrating appear again, but, as might be supposed, in a very different form. Most of them are very good, particularly Leonidas and the Conceited Pedler, the latter having the "conceit taken out of him" in a very ingenious and amusing way. The poems, with which the book is interspersed, are by no means as good as the stories, and they bear, we think, a too loose resemblance to some...
There is no good reason for this, and no reason whatever why Harvard cannot furnish as good material from her Freshman Class as Yale from hers. After each defeat of the last three years some reasons for the poor play of particular members have been given and received as sufficient, but the most obvious reasons have been a want of practice in playing strange clubs, and a lack of feeling of any responsibility on the part of the Class. Should the present negotiations prove successful, the first reason will be entirely removed. The second can only be removed...
...repeat our solicitation for contributions from all our fellow-students, and particularly request those who send articles through the mail to attach their signatures, not for publication, but as a pledge of good faith. Any article not deemed suitable for our paper can, in that case, be immediately returned to its author...
...mourns the vitiated tastes of the Middletowners, who patronize "Combination Troupes" and "Negro Minstrels" five nights in the week, but fail to appreciate a musical entertainment of real merit. It informs us also that, inspired by the sight of the cups won by the Freshmen, Middletown has voted a good crew for the next University race. A boat-house will be erected in the spring...