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...SMALL audience assembled yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel to listen to the competing candidates for the Boylston prizes. The declamations were far superior to those of last year. Out of the thirty competitors, five were awarded prizes. The two first prizes were assigned to E. R. Fenollosa, '74, and T. F. Taylor, '75. F. Dumaresque, A. B. Ellis, and W. H. Holman, all of '75, obtained second prizes. The selection of Mr. Fenollosa afforded excellent opportunities for a display of forcible oratory, which were fully improved. As a dramatic recitation, the rendering of a selection from Shakespeare's King Lear...
...Harvards met the Bostons yesterday afternoon on Jarvis Field, and played them a very pretty game. The opening inning promised a small score and excellent play, but the score grew, and the play at times was not free from fault...
After the concert a "small" dance was proposed, for which the Pierian kindly played. The strains of Strauss's "Doctrinen" and "Autograph" waltzes floated in the air until after eleven o'clock, when the heart - rending tones of the "bull" fiddle were hushed...
...provisions and rods to the smaller boat which plies between the mouth of the Saguenay and Ha-Ha Bay, - a charming trip, by the way, - passing Cape Eternity and overhanging Trinity opposite. All the way up the river we see at frequent intervals the mouths of tributaries. These small rivers are leased by the government for from five to twenty years to private parties for fishing purposes. At one of the larger of these openings our boat stops, and we find our guides or canoemen ready to take us ashore. The mouth of the river is perhaps a hundred feet...
...have come to the scene of our sport. The lines and hooks must be small, but of the very best quality. The salmon, a most active fish, as soon as it is caught by the hook, endeavors; naturally, in every way to get loose, jumping far out of the water, darting one way and another, and finally swimming off sometimes a mile, while we have to follow all the way, running over slippery bowlders, and at times up to the waist in water, always ready to give out or take in line, uncertain whether there is ten pound or fifty...