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...could look back at the horror and darkness of the night, which had so suddenly come to an end. But I was long in comprehending what had passed. It seemed like being in another world, with the newness of awakened life and the radiance of a fresh spring day. I rose slowly and tried to think what had happened. Then, like a lightning-flash, the truth was revealed to me. Who had fired that revolver, and why did it make no noise? And where was Stephen? I looked about me in a bewildered way. There was no trace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIRD OF THE AIR. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

SPORTING ITEMS.MR. WM. B. CURTIS of the Spirit of the Tim's has been invited to act as referee and time-keeper at our Spring Games on the 19th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...them than the ordinary listener will be likely to. Yet those, who, though having "an ear for music," have given it no training, find much pleasure in listening to the choruses. In short, they can be enjoyed by all who are at all musically inclined. This work, with the "Spring" Symphony, is held by those competent to judge to be clearly the greatest production of native American musical art, and may be classed with the most valuable compositions of the time. Surely, then, we may urge upon students the purchase of the work as one to be proud of both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK NOTICE. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...Juniors are to have a Nine in the field this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...that "The robins all are still." My own experience has been that at the time of twilight the robins are the only creatures that are not still. A short piece entitled "In May Days" has a somewhat peculiar construction. The writer begins by enumerating some of the features of spring, and in the first three stanzas rolls up a ponderous compound subject, containing, among other things, a relative clause attached to a relative clause, but as yet brings in no predicate; in the fourth stanza he takes a fresh start and sums up the long subject, - still no predicate; here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POETRY OF HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »