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...acceptable enough if not overdone. In many cases an episode relies for much of its humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails for this reason, and wanders along, overshooting the mark, when a little more skill would have made it entertaining. The maudlin sketch, "At the Freshman Dinner" is live enough to read with more interest...
...Mark's at Southboro...
Current Literature--"Mark Twain: An Inquiry," by W. D. Howells...
...medal is annually awarded by the society in recognition of notable astronomical investigations and is regarded as a mark of the highest distinction. It was given to Professor Pickering for his research in regard to variable stars, and his valuable work in astronomical photography. He received the award once before, in 1866, and therefore shares with Le Verier, the French astronomer, the distinction of being one of the two foreign scientists whom the Royal Society has thus twice honored...
...Revolution," by Brooks Adams '70. In Scribners is an article on "Russia of Toda," by Henry Norman '81, and a poem entitled "A Greek Galley," by G. C. Lodge '95. W. D. Howells h. '67 has an essay in "The Century" entitled "At Third Hand" and a paper on "Mark Twain; an Inquiry" in "The North American Review." Senator H. C. Lodge '71 also has an article in "The North American Review," entitled "John Marshall, Statesman...