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...Songs of Syracuse," by William Burt Harlow, H. U., '79, is a small volume of poems celebrating the glories, not of the old Sicilian town but of the modern city of salt sheds and breweries. These poems are mostly inspired by rural scenery about the city and are mainly descriptive of nature and of the various languages in which she speaks. Other poems are pictures of European travel, others again reminiscences of happy youth and school days. Mr. Harlow's best work is descriptive and many of his lines are dainty and melodious. The best verses in the volume...
President Cleveland never attended a college of any kind. The acting vice-president, John Sherman, is a graduate of the common schools of Ohio. The secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard, never got farther than a Delaware rural academy. The speaker of the House of Representatives, John G. Carlisle, is a self educated...
...muck over the entire yard, the odors arising from which being not only offensive but unhealthy. We would remind the fossiliferous yokel who has charge of the farming department of the university, that the fertilizer in question is now only used in the cultivation of potatoes and cabbages in rural districts, and not for the encouragement of grass on gentlemens' lawns; we would also call his attention to the fact that there are many other fertilizers now in use which are not only effective, but also inoffensive. This state of the grass drives us to the sidewalks, and there what...
...soon we learn to discriminate between the honest maiden from the rural districts and that Cambridge girl who has not missed the "ring around the tree" for a dozen years. The Cambridge maiden has acquired a taste for college students as a Parisian for absinthe, and can be happy with anything from a sub-freshman to a Divinity student...
...days when he was young, when there was not a man living could throw him in the ring. When these rural sports were of a character in which the parson and squire could take part, they flourished. The tangible honor to be won rarely consisted of more than a belt, but as the exercise became popular the prizes increased in value, and though for a time the wrestlings flourished, doing so upon an unsound basis, a decadence set in, and gradually, though surely, they fell to the position they hold at the present time.- [Land and Water...