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There is a very noticeable flavor in these Register articles of the style and habits of thought of the English eighteenth century. Perhaps Dr. Holmes acquired his alleged Pope-like style from the practice of his college days in this sort of writing. If we were to quote certain passages from this book credited to their true authors, we fear we should be held for high treason; for what a ludicrous lowering of dignities there would be! If it were to be known that an overseer of Harvard once penned Horatian stanzas of the following sort, where would all authority...
...fashioned after the manner of the whist clubs so famous in London during the past century. The latter scheme was soon recognized as impracticable, for reasons that will readily be apparent. It seems, however, that there are enough ardent admirers of the game in college to establish some sort of an organization which we are sure would soon become popular, and if this were done it would be very easy to institute tournaments, to which players from other colleges could be invited, and in this way the interest be revived in one of the most excellent and improving games...
...Conalle of Albion College recently had his nose and jaw broken in being initiated into a college secret society. Of such a sort are the superior influences of Western College life...
...guilty of here. At the risk of self-repetition, we should like to quote again, for the American's benefit, Mr. Wilde's own comment upon the affair : "If you mean those scholars at Boston (laughing heartily), that was a bit of school-boy fun, not meant in any sort of malice." After all this, why should so fair a paper as the American persist in judging us so harshly, when even our own Crimson, ardent admirer and exponent of Mr. Wilde as it is, sees nothing to condemn in the frolic...
...venture to say that Mr. Wilde fails to appreciate the essential mistake of his attitude before the public. His claim is that of a teacher, and as a teacher all are agreed he is not a success. There is an ingenuous egotism in Mr. Wilde's claim of this sort that would be amusing if it were not pitiful. Oscar Wilde has as yet done no sure work or presented any original thought which gives him any just claim upon us. The implied comparison of case with the treatment accorded such poets as Keats by the public is not only...