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...account of his wife's ill-health, Minister James Russell Lowell has been obliged to leave London for the present and return to Madrid...
PRESCOTT EVARTS, Secretary.OVER one hundred members of the University were present at the second meeting of the Harvard Union, in Boylston Hall, on Wednesday evening. After a long discussion a Constitution drawn up by a committee was adopted with slight changes. This Constitution is very brief, and provides that all persons connected with the University shall be eligible for membership. The following officers were elected for the remaining half-year: Pres. W. R. Thayer, '81; Vice-Pres., J. G. Thorp, L. S.; Sec., I. Panin, '82; Treas. C. G. Washburn, '80. Committee, F. Warren, '82, G. C. Van Benthuysen...
...demon that has crept into the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, and at present edits the exchange column of the Niagara Index, reaches for the Crimson in the following style: "A vein of lovesick, sentimental bosh permeates the Crimson's pages. But as we have never been in love, and don't anticipate any such fatality, our censure is excusable." Poor fellow, we really pity you! The unlucky author of "Specimen Bricks" next claims his attention: "We cannot say the idiot who is responsible for the above is a brick. This article may occasionally be found embedded...
...first thing for a poet to do is to have a lady love. Now I never cared enough about the fair sex to get beyond a limited acquaintance with two or three of them, so I created a mistress in my fancy, and called her Belinda. Up to the present time I have written seventy-six poems to this fair one, in which I have traced all the incidents of an imaginary courtship. The first describes our meeting; we did not know each other, and I was struck with Cupid's dart at the outset. It begins thus...
...HEINS, formerly of the University of Pennsylvania, but at present of the Institute of Technology, in Boston, has taken an extra course in the University, so as to enable him to represent her again in the running high jump at the Intercollegiate. He has taken second prize there now for two successive years, but proved himself no mean jumper last year, by obtaining a record of 5 ft. 7 1/2 in., than which there is no greater for the amateur in America excepting that of J. P. Conover...