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...Hamlin, '83, of Roxbury was knocked senseless, but is not badly hurt beyond a bruise on the head...
Resolved, that the board cannot too strongly condemn the demonstrations by certain members at the wearing of hats by visitors in the gallery. These demonstrations are unnecessary, as it is the duty of the head waiter to notify at once all visitors not removing their hats. The board earnestly requests, therefore, that nothing of the kind take place in the future...
Continuing through several number the HERALD-CRIMSON has published each day at the head of its columns verses clipped from various college papers, presenting on the whole we think a fair representation of the average run of college "poetry." Better than any words of our own could do we have thus afforded our readers an opportunity to judge for themselves of the general character of productions of this sort and to forecast perhaps what prospects the academic world holds forth to the great public at large for the production of future poetic genius. This prospect it cannot be denied...
...majestic figure of Homer is treated as the Greeks treated the figure of Jove. The grand head has heavy clustering hair and beard, the mighty chest is bare to the waist. The figure is seen in full face, the attitude is self-reliant, commanding, king-like. A staff is grasped in one hand, the other holds the drapery which comes from the shoulders and covers the lower portion of the body and the lower limbs. The modeling of the chest and limb is masterful, the pose of the head majestic. The pale dull red, green and yellow of the background...
Virgil is represented as a young man, beautiful, poetic and graceful in pose and face. He stands, his hand upon his hip, turned half away, his head slightly thrown backward. The artist has made the Latin poet to look behind him toward the great singer of Greece, as if asking for sympathy from the shadows of the past: a poetic conceit, but one which has been sadly thwarted by those in charge of placing the windows. According to Mr. Lafarge's design, the figures should turn slightly toward each other, the younger poet as if appealing to his great predecessor...