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...Biography of Y", or "The Affair of No. 13 Rue Ghenna" - he should exercise his powers upon subjects less seductive, and harder to treat, perhaps, but affording greater opportunities for criticism, and less facility for masking bad work. It is easy to make a bad story about Antipodeans pass muster, whereas a faulty account of things nearer home stands abjectly and manifestly futile...
...Harvard Cricket eleven played the Longwood team on Saturday. As the Longwood team was unable to muster all its members, the men divided up and played sides. The side which consisted of eight Harvard men and three Longwood men beat the other side by a score of 93 to 53. A second inning was begun, but not finished...
...when asleep! Why, we should all be poets. Charles Lamb was mortified by the "poverty" of his dreams, and envied Coleridge, who at his will, could conjure up airy domes and pleasure houses for Kubla Khan and Abyssinian maids, to solace his night solitudes, while he, Lamb, could not muster a fiddle. And so he concludes that there was nothing inspired in his own poetry. I must confess to having felt the same mortification. There is my friend C., who has wonderful visions in his sleep; and when in a tone of conscious superiority, he tells me of them...
Phillips Andover has a campaign battalion as well as the more dignified collegians. How many voters can they muster would be a pertinent question...
Forest and Stream will offer a $100 cup to be contested for by college shooting clubs next year. Now is the time for Yale to bring out all the old shooting irons and Queen's arms she can muster, as conservatism is sure to win. Modern rifles will be nowhere. [New Haven Union...