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...characterize Mr. Hudgens' poems indelibly by the utterance of a single word or by some Sphynx-like expression is as much an indication of imbecile intellect as of caustic invidiousness and of childish attempt to gain a Delphic credence. It can be done with no more justice in the present instance than that one should take a poem of Byron's lighter vein and pronounce Byron weak, or that one should call Longfellow childish because he had once allowed his Muse to play about the heartstrings of youth...
...remarked, some of the shorter poems have serious faults, but they are only natural ones that experience would surely remove. In general there is a healthy imagery, a delicious freedom from that morbid, sickly perversion of aestheticism that is so much sought after by writers of rhyme at the present time. The poems are the offsprings of an unsullied imagination and of an intellect more vigorous and growing than subtle or matured; the poet thinks of something else than garden-wall or opera-box love; there comes home to him those other feelings and impulses of youth...
...senior class dinner will take place at Parker's on Monday, the 26th, at seven o'clock P. M. The dinner will be paid for out of the class fund, and it is hoped that all past and present members of '82 will be able to attend. A book has been placed at Bartlett's, in which all who intend to be present at the dinner are requested to sign; those who wish to sit together may do so by bracketing their names...
...notice that appears in this issue, from the English department, is one that will be read with the greatest pleasure and satisfaction by all undergraduates. The gentlemen who have in charge the matter of themes and forensics have determined to distribute, before the close of the present academic year, a list of the subjects for the next year, in order that men may be enabled to utilize the summer months in at least a part preparation of their compositions. Life at Cambridge is so full of action, a person's time is usually so completely occupied in the study...
...graduating class at West Point this year numbers thirty-seven. The existing vacancies in the army at present are only thirty-one. Unless there are six more vacancies between now and July 1, that number will be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the act of June 11, 1878, which provides, that from and after July 1, 1882, only such number of the graduates of the United States Military Academy in any one year shall be entitled to appointment as second lieutenants in the army as are required to fill vacancies of that grade existing on the first...