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Less than two weeks more remain during which contestants may submit contributions for the Advocate's $25.00 prize offered for the best essay on religion, education, or liberalism. The manuscripts should contain not more than 2,500 words, although more than one manuscript may be submitted, each of which should be signed by the contributor. The judges are Professor Irving Babbitt '89, A. M. '93, and Messrs. Ellery Sedgwick '94, and William Roscoe Thayer '81, A. M. '86, Litt.D. '13. Mr. Sedgwick is editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Mr. Thayer, who was an editor of the Advocate, is the author...
Lincoln's Gettysburg address, in the handwriting of Lincoln himself, will reside in the library of the University. Senator Henry W. Keyes '87 announced the fact in the Senate on Lincoln's Birthday after he had read the document. Lincoln wrote the manuscript out from his notes shortly after his return from Gettysburg. This was at the request of Edward Everett, of the class of 1811, who had expressed to Lincoln his admiration of the speech. The document is bound handsomely into one volume with a copy of Everett's address at the National Cemetery in 1863 and a letter...
...more volume, the eighteenth, has now been added to the Variorum Shakespeare, with the completion by Horace Howard Furness '88, of the manuscript for King John. The last volume is reported to have taken more time in preparation than any other in the set edited by the late Horace Howard Furness, Sr., '54, and his son, and published by Lippincott Company...
Lampy is nothing if not versatile. He arraigned the faculty and the undergraduates; he has turned from that bulwark of New England tradition-the Manuscript--to the "Americanism" and osmopolitanism" of Hearst. But never before the current number has he set himself up as a crusader. Now he has dropped his wonted jollity and dedicated himself to that "stern god, Caustic Alkali." He has shed his Jester's trappings, has taken on a snake skin, and, with adder's blood, pursues the vermin. phrosyne sits alone at home...
...change from the usual requirements has been made this year in that the length of the poem need not be restricted to 50 lines. All manuscript must bear an assumed name and must be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer and superscribed with the assumed name. The competition is only open to undergraduates of Harvard College. All manuscripts should be left at University 4, at the office of the Secretary of the Faculty, by 5 P. M., April...