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WE are glad to see so important a work placed within the reach of the public; since all who are in any considerable degree sensitive to music ought to have the opportunity of studying it. Those who attend the performance of the play will be obviously helped in their appreciation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK NOTICE. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

IT is an old remark that the most unendurable of tyrants is the petty tyrant. Puffed up by what little authority he has, he struts about as if ready to challenge the universe. To remind effectually such a little tin god-on wheels that he is after all nothing more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

IT is with great regret that we hear that Phillips Brooks has declined to accept the call of the President and Fellows to the Plummer Professorship of Christian Morals. We cannot too strongly commend the course which led to his choice, as he is the man who would have done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

THE students lose in Dr. Peabody, moreover, not only a kind friend, but a positive benefactor. Many needy young men, without regard to rank, used to receive from him annually sums ranging from fifty to one hundred dollars. It was understood that he received funds from wealthy friends for such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

These inconveniences and discomforts contributed in a great measure towards making most of the Crew haggard and worn by the time the day for the race came. The present captain of the Crew was unwilling to ask his men to undergo a year of hard and careful training, and then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR POSITION IN REGARD TO THE RACE WITH YALE. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »