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...better appreciate the difficulties which beset our cotemporaries, or more readily pardon their errors, than ourselves. We feel constrained, however, to remind our friends of the Echo that no college paper can achieve success without hard work on the part of all connected with it. To drop a miscellaneous assortment of items into a hopper can hardly be called editing a paper, in the strict sense of the word. It is, we think, the general opinion that the Echo has never been all that a Harvard daily should be, nor yet all it at one time gave promise of becoming...
...Lessing, expects to take up Wieland's Oberon. The selection seems a poor one and cannot interest the students. Wieland's works cannot be compared with those of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller. Goethe's Faust was read in this course last year and proved to be uninteresting and too hard for the students; why take up Wieland's Oberon, a work even harder to understand? Why make the student read works containing forms no longer in use, when he is not familiar with modern forms of speech? The majority of students expect to make some practical use of their German...
...Harvard Shakespeare, edited by Rev. Henry N. Hudson," deserves some notice, perhaps, at our hands. We are certainly concerned in an undertaking which boldly appropriates the name of our College for its titlepage. But we can hardly congratulate Mr. Hudson on his good judgment in thus attempting to connect himself or his writings with an institution that has never yet taken the slightest notice of him. We confess it had occurred to us that there was only one man who could properly edit a "Harvard" Shakspere, and that man was our own Professor Child; it had also occurred...
...game with Yale. In behalf of the Team we thank the College for the general support which it has given this fall, and especially for the enthusiasm evinced by two hundred men having signed for tickets to New Haven. What we may expect with the Yale team is a hard-fought, fiercely contested match; what we trust we may expect of the spectators are actions which are consistent with emulation rather than enmity. The Eleven has our most sincere wishes for success...
This, too, awakened thunders of applause, the metre being especially commended. A sweet little waif called "A HARD CASE," was then read and accepted. I slept during the greater part of the next piece, which was entitled "A TALE OF THE ALEUTIANS," by the author of "WHAT I KNOW ABOUT ELOPING," but was roused by the voice of the chief demon, saying, "Awake, fellow exhibitors, awake, and let us listen to the Mendacities of the Hebdomad!!" With hungry eyes they gathered round him and listened...