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...will be made by Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41, Dr. Edward, Waldo Emerson '66, Dr. David Williams Cheever '52, who was assistant under Dr. Holmes when professor at the Medical School, and Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers, h. '99 cf Cambridge. Mr. C. T. Copeland '82 will read "The Last Leaf" and "The Chambered Nautilus," two of Dr. Holmes's most famous poems. Music will be furnished by the University glee club and by the Cambridge Latin School orchestra...
...December number of the Monthly opens fitly with tributes to President Eliot from three men of note, Ambassador Bryce, President Hadley of Yale, and President Wilson of Princeton. On these follows "A Leaf of Bay," a simple and musical two-stanza ode in praise of a warrior who has conquered and may now rest. The collocation suggests that the allusion is to President Eliot, who certainly will watch the young men with undiminished interest as they "look toward the fight," but whether he will be content to rest "careless of the war about" is doubtful. The other pieces of verse...
...conspicuously failed. Turning to the morally pestilential life of a certain watering place, here called Nouvean Isle, he recounts with zest an incident which, though improbable, might have been made amusing. He is, however, so lacking in narrative skill that at the critical moment he does not present his leaf-clad personages vividly. Occasionally,--for example, when dwelling upon the physical peculiarities of middle age,--he comes perilously near coarseness. What is even worse, he seems to take a sophomoric delight in degenerate aspects of social life, and to look with smiling tolerance upon vices which a conscientious artist would...
...temporary bridge will be made of wood, at an estimated cost of about $30,000. It will be sixty feet wide, and will have a wooden leaf draw similar to the one in the present bridge. It is expected that the new bridge will be completed before the beginning of the fall College term...
Following is the program for the Pop Concert at Symphony Hall this evening: German Night. 1 German March, Strube 2 Waltz, "Morning Journal," Strauss 3 Air and Gavotte, Bach 4 Overture, "Poet and Peasant," Suppe Violoncello Solo, Mr. J. Keller. 5 Overture, "Tanhauser," Wagner 6 a. Album Leaf, Strube b. Dalliance, Strube 7 Largo, Handel Solo Violin, Mr. Jacques Hoffmann. 8 Hungarian Rhapsody in F, Liszt 9 Aus Dem Volke, Schreiner 10 a. Schlaraffen Hymn. b. Lulu Lied. 11 Waltz, "Blue Danube," Strauss 12 March, "Deutschland," Kempter