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...continued. Mrs. Deland's "Sidney" gives us the fourth, fifth and sixth chapters. The story steadily develops in interest and the strong scene with which this installment closes is in the author's best manner. There are as usual a number of editorials, the one on Browning being rather a conservative criticism, and the recent work of Harris Taylor on the English Constitution is reviewed at length...
...fair to argue, before 1888, that Yale was becoming a mere side show compared with Harvard, as it is to conclude the Harvard is becoming provincial on account of the recent growth of Yale? Either argument is false and trivial because it is based on insufficient data. Why not rather view the subject from the point of view of several decades, as the CRIMSON does, instead of trying to find ground for alarm in the figures for five, or more correctly, three years? If there is "versatility of misapprehension" anywhere, it is not confined to the CRIMSON...
...Harvard. We hope, however, that the time has come when the Greek department will give another proof of its vigor. We understand that Professor J. W. White is in favor of the undertaking of another play, though perhaps not on such a grand scale as before. His idea is rather to have two short plays, a Latin comedy followed by one of Aristophanes. Yet it certainly seems as if a representation on as grand a scale as the previous one would amply repay the trouble taken, and would in more ways than one, prove beneficial to Harvard...
...first place our purpose is not necessarily, as our correspondent would seem to suggest, to express the prevailing opinion of the college in this matter, but rather to give utterance to our convictions. The question in hand certainly has two sides; the CRIMSON has taken that which seems to it most tenable...
...swing, in order that when the time comes to practice on leg work the crew may not lose its form. It is very important that every man should get a perfect control of his body-a thing which was somewhat neglected last year. Mr. Keyes hopes that the slow, rather unpleasant work done at present will prevent the men from falling into bad faults when they get on the water and lay the foundation for rapid improvement late in the season...