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...have before remarked, some of the shorter poems have serious faults, but they are only natural ones that experience would surely remove. In general there is a healthy imagery, a delicious freedom from that morbid, sickly perversion of aestheticism that is so much sought after by writers of rhyme at the present time. The poems are the offsprings of an unsullied imagination and of an intellect more vigorous and growing than subtle or matured; the poet thinks of something else than garden-wall or opera-box love; there comes home to him those other feelings and impulses of youth...
...Serious riots broke out yesterday at Alexandria between the hostile natives and Europeans, during which about twenty persons were killed. Among the wounded are the English consul, the Greek consul and the Italian consul. The immediate cause was the stabbing of an Arab by a Maltese...
While we have serious doubts as to New York becoming the centre of the intellectual gravity of America, we think that the care and earnestness shown by Columbia College in the advancement of one of the most useful and pleasant branches of modern study are to be heartily commended. This conduct in the light of modern views and purposes is in the right spirit. When one considers the prevailing tendency of American feelings, it will be seen that the future success of American colleges will depend to a great extent upon the success with which they combine the aesthetic...
...recent extensive robbery at the boat-house certainly demands serious attention. How unfortunate and unpleasant it is can be appreciated fully by only those who met with the loss. The experience has been so expensive that it is to be hoped that the profit derived from it will be in reasonable proportion to the expenditure. Some months ago, almost every day it was found necessary to chronicle considerable thefts at the gymnasium, but by due care the evil was finally removed, for all time let it be hoped. The authorities of the boat-house owe it to all interested...
...attributed to a coal from a cigarette, which, dropping in a large pile of papers, lay unnoticed until the papers, books and an adjacent window curtain were in a blaze. There was but one person in the room and he had to do some lively work to prevent a serious fire. The damage done to the carpet and furniture will probably amount...