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In stock: Dumas, Le Capitaine Pamphile; Fletcher's Advanced Readings; Taine's Ancient Religion. Atlantic for December, containing Lowell's Anniversary Oration and Holmes' Poem, corrected by the authors. Subscriptions to the Political Economy Quarterly, $1.68 per year, N. Y. Nation, $2.80.
A significant remark was made by Dr. Brooks in his sermon on Sunday morning, - "And now it is the privilege of festival times like these . . . that the college feels anew its relation to the whole of things. . . . . On his birthday, when he stops his work to gather up his life...
An address by James Russell Lowell, a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes - what greater literary treat could be offered to any audience, even one more cultured than that which assembled yesterday in Sanders Theatre? What could be more fitting, too, than that at the birthday of festivities of the Alma...
THE FIREWORKS ON HOLMES; NO RUSH.
At the head of the '87 column was borne a transparency bearing the legend - "We are John Harvard; take your pick." A second bore two verses from Holmes' celebrated poem about "the freshman class of one," while the third, and most amusing, read as follows: "We are the oldest living...