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...announcement that the manuscripts for the Bowdoin and the Garrison prizes are due today emphasizes an undue hardship imposed upon the undergraduate competitor. With his eleventh-hour method of work, he invariably is obliged to exert his efforts to the utmost to complete the manuscript within the required time. But the hour examinations come at this period as spectral interruptions. That he will neglect in the last few days of the competition the essential revision of his manuscript and devote himself to the examinations seems improbable...
...competition for plays for the spring production of the Dramatic Club will close next Monday, when all manuscript should be handed in to J. W. D. Seymour '17 at 54 Mt. Auburn street. Short one-act plays are preferred, though long plays will receive fair consideration. The first performance of the spring production will be given in Cambridge on April...
...probably at the Hasty Pudding Theatre. The play-writing competition will be open as previously announced until Monday, February 14. Several plays have already been handed in, but no choice will be made until after that date. Short one-act plays are preferable, though long plays are not barred. Manuscript should be handed to J. W. D. Seymour '17 at 54 Mt. Auburn street...
...Dickens sent Mr. Fields a bit of the 'Uncommercial Traveller,' selected, it is likely enough, by that inveterate joker, because it revealed his method of literary composition when he was having the greatest difficulty in phrasing the narrative to suit him. From Whittier came the manuscript of several poems, together with a letter suggesting that one of them is of a class of poems of mine which are rather un-Quakerish.' Thackeray is represented by a bit of the 'Roundabout Papers,' Sydney Smith by his 'Letter to the Pennsylvanians' who had repudiated a state loan, and George Eliot by 'Agatha...
...volume of 'The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats' has on the title the autograph of Leigh Hunt. Into it Hunt pasted a bit of manuscript written by Keats, a letter in which Coleridge expresses a preference for sausages over a mutton chop, and one from Shelley which originally covered 'a check for (within a few shillings) the amount of your bill...