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THE recent award of the Bowdoin prizes for dissertations of excellence reminds us that the incentives to exertion in the fields of literature are confined, with us, entirely to prose. We have had here, in the past ten years, many men who have given evidence of ability to write very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

IT is an amusing way of doing nothing to sit in one's room half dozing, and listen to the steps that come along the entry on their way to the rooms overhead. It is quite an instructive occupation too, presenting, as it does, a wide field for the cultivation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTFALLS. | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

Especially prominent is the crack whistler of the entry, who displays his musical tastes from the moment he enters the building until he slams his door, three flights up. His performance of the "Inman March" is something electrifying. Of late he has bestowed his energies on the funeral dirge in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTFALLS. | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

LAST year the season was backward, the weather was by no means as pleasant at this time as it is this year, and yet on the river there is now much less activity than there was at the same date last year. There is but one explanation of this state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

We expect of our crew this year something which was never demanded of a crew before. They have, in the first place, to row a four-mile race; this ended, six of them must change all their habits in the boat and pull the old three-mile race without a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEN AND NOW. | 4/21/1876 | See Source »