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...accused of charging more for books than the lowest priced bookstore in Boston, announces that for the next ten days he will sell the following books at the prices indicated: Harvard Greek Play, by H. Norman, $1.25; American College Song Book, $1.40; Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, $8.25; Butcher and Lang's Translation of Odyssey, $1.00; Mill's Political Economy...
...Instead of a spiritual muse, he invoked for his goddesses the ladies present, and, in so doing, he sang very amusingly of his 'hapless amour with too tall a maid.' After these parts Joseph Angier rose among his class and sang a song to the tune of 'Auld Lang Syne,' all the class joining in the chorus. After the services the whole class went to take leave of President Quincy at his house; a very agreeable gathering. Cake, wine and lemonade were served...
...chapel were as follows: History of the class, by George Richmond Parsons of Providence, R. I.; prophecy, by Judd Ellis Bulley of Waverly, N. Y.; oration, by John McKinstrey Merriam of South Framingham, Mass.; poem, by Frank Anthony Luques of Biddeford, Me. The exercises closed with "Auld Lang Syne." The usual exercises about the class tree then occurred. In the evening a brilliant reception was held. The number in the class is 31; whole number in the school...
...agree well with Mr. Arnold's determination, expressed in one of his latest books, to abandon, for the future, discussions in politics and theology and devote himself to literature. There is an interesting and appreciative, if not a brilliant, sketch of Mr. Arnold, in the April Century, by Andrew Lang, and the number has, as a frontispiece, an admirable portrait of Mr. Arnold, drawn after the painting by C. F. Watts. The following sentences occur in the article: "But the Greek drama was, as Mr. Arnold recognizes in his admirable preface to "Merope," the child of peculiar social and theatrical...
...Theocritus," "Bion" and "Moschus" have been translated into English prose by Mr. A. Lang, with an introductory essay on "Theocritus and His Age." The book is published by Macmillan...