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...mild, inoffensive-looking person of about twenty-six summers, attired in a neat blue suit, and at the first glance would have been taken for one of those harmless young men of gentlemanly pursuits, and no visible means of support, whom one so often notices in our "Modern Athens...
...Little Tin Gods-on-Wheels; or, Society in our Modern Athens. A Trilogy after the manner of the Greek. Cambridge: C. W. Sever...
Those of us who remember the "tragedies" will be immediately attracted to the new illustrations by Mr. Attwood. These illustrations are indeed capital; the most humorous and the most skilfully drawn that Mr. Attwood has yet done. The union in the dress of the "Little Tin Gods," of the modern full-dress costume with that of an ancient Greek swell, is a most clever adaptation of the cartoons to the spirit of the "tragedies." And in the attitudes of the "Little Tin Gods," and especially in the bored and supercilious expression in their faces, Mr. Attwood has left little wanting...
...following Commencement Parts have been accepted: Hale, The Poetry of Doubt; Hyde, Modern Idolatry of Culture; McFarlane, The Decline of American Shipping; Patten, Latin Salutatory; Poor, the Platonic Idea in Art; Schofield, Present Commercial Agitation in England; Swazey, Lord Beaconsfield's Recent Diplomacy; Taussig, The New German Empire...
...college paper nor every intelligent student that moulds the opinion of the college; the influential person is he who is called the "popular man." Our college life is like a circus, - a modern circus with many horses and several clowns. The popular man is the dazzling bareback rider; the rest of us are the horses and the clowns. Round and round walk the clowns, - round and round the ring go the horses, - up in the air goes the rider. Applause...