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McClure's Magazine for February takes its first grasp of the reader's attention with eight portraits of Lincoln (several of them very rare), some twenty other Lincoln pictures, and an account, abounding in vivid personal details, of Lincoln's misfortunes as a country merchant; of his entrance into the legislature, and the beginning of his acquaintance with Douglas; of his work as a village postmaster and a deputy county surveyor; of his study of Shakespeare and Burnes and a copy of Blackstone found by chance in a barrel of refuse; and of his romantic courtship of Ann Rutledge...
...FLETCHER.GERMAN 1c.- After finishing the chapter on Geometry the class will proceed with the chapter on the Thermometer beginning at p. 211 of Dippold's Reader...
Robert P. Utter's story entitled "A Fate Forestalled" does not excite one's interest at first. In the climax, however, the success of the whole piece is at once crystalized, and the reader is left with the impression that the story is distinctly worth while...
...short time ago we alluded to a letter in a recent number of London Field making sweeping and absurd charges against the amateur standing of American university athletes. We did not attempt any refutation of the charges because no intelligent American reader would have needed it to convince him of the utter ignorance of the Field's correspondent as to the way athletics are regulated in American Universities. We are very glad to find, however, that Mr. J. L. Coolidge '95 of the Mott Haven Team has written a letter to the Field, in reply to the member...
...Song," by Philip Henry Savage, might better have been called a "Lament." It is, however, not particularly noteworthy. The meaning of what he has to say may have been crystal clear to the author, but to the uninitiated reader it is vague and involved...