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...friends who make a tri-weekly pilgrimage to Divinity Hall are at present much interested in the Tall...
...last week or two. The comedy is one of Taylor's, and is, on that account, very attractive; but the "comic force" seems, to us at least, to lose its intensity and to flag in interest in some places. That a young wife, crossing the ocean alone, may make time pass pleasantly by flirting with one or two elderly gentlemen, or that some one gentleman may be tired of his wife, is not unlikely; but when all the passengers seem to have a touch of some kind of matrimonial infelicity or another, the play certainly borders upon the unreal...
...race must be fixed. It is certainly desirable to make it as early as possible, - in the first place, that those who live at some distance from the Colleges which will probably be represented, and who do not wish to consume a great part of their vacation in this vicinity, may have an opportunity of witnessing the regatta; in the second place, that the members of the contesting crews may not lose too much of their time...
Sarcastically speaking of a person competent to pass such a paper, he says: "Of course it is not for such as he to think of attending any religious duty at the suggestion of another. That would foster in him 'a school-boy spirit,' and, moreover, make him unworthy of his sires. Did they not settle Boston that they might have freedom to worship God, and can he aim at anything less than freedom not to worship him?" Is not this slightly tainted with a school-boy spirit? We think Mr. Kirwan's question, "Really, Bishop Hughes...
...scratch its big brother, has already gotten its legs and become playful. It has begun to poke sticks through the fence at its neighbors and natural playmates, the Courant and Record. Sweet infant prodigy, we warn you that it is not yet near enough to the millennium to make it at all safe for children, weaned or unweaned, to pursue their little games near the domicile of the asp." - Yale...