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...dislike to be forever harping on the old subjects, and their constant rewriting is as troublesome to us as the perusal of them can possibly be to the reader; yet we must once more raise our voices in protest against the temperature of the Chapel. Of late there has been no pretense made of heating the place, and yesterday morning the temperature was very near the zero point. It is positively inhuman in the persons who are responsible for this condition of affairs to let things go on as they have been going. A few more experiences like that...
...foregoing papers of this discussion, will apply. A light, or humorous poem is sometimes tolerable, even if it lacks the greatest finish. A good joke may often carry off a poor rhyme. Yet an equally weak attempt to express something very thoughtful, produces an uncommonly depressing effect upon the reader. The language is so inadequate to the idea that the work is in no way successful. So, on this score alone, it is less hazardous to try light verse...
...historical essay, or biographical sketch, shows neither thought nor originality. Yet such a statement is far from true. For it is no light matter to take a given number of facts about an affair of ordinary interest and so arrange them as to hold the attention of a reader. In one way, such is the task of an artist in making colors into a picture. The writer must see what is to be in the foreground, and what in the background, how his state-statements are to be grouped to show his meaning most forcibly. In short, he must have...
...Harvard Quartette" and L. L. Winter, '86, reader, assisted in the entertainment at the Cambridge High School Alumni reunion last Friday evening...
With all its peculiarities, American college journalism mirrors with surprising truthfulness the states of feeling, we had almost said the degrees of civilization, prevailing in the several parts of our broad land, The critical reader will easily detect differences in the tone of the kindred publications of our eastern colleges; between North, South, and West, the gulf is too wide for the most casual reader to overlook. Here in the north we have reached the stage of devotion to the aesthetic, so well illustrated by the Century and Harpers'. Sketches and stories whose aim is some artistic form and merit...