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...boldness in conception of plot, and an excellent sense of the fitness of things. Mr. Flandrau excels rather in vivid descriptions than in character delineations, and in the sketch under discussion the descriptive portions are the best parts, for neither the hero nor the heroine of the sketch stand out very clearly and the little conversation that there is is not particularly good...
...great distances between the cities in which the concerts were given, and the consequent heavy traveling expenses. Another year the trip will doubtless be planned so that this can be in a measure avoided. This year the clubs have had such a pleasant time that they can stand the disappointment at not having cleared a handsome sum by the trip...
...time reading, scrapping and playing whist and other more lucrative games. In the evening, an entertainment of specialties was given by the fellows. They all gathered at one end of the car and the porter's step ladder placed in the doorway was used for the artists to stand on. Several songs, speeches, and specialty "acts" used up the evening very pleasantly. After a good deal of confusion and preliminary practice with pillows, +++alises and boots the fellows gradually retired and about midnight the car was quiet. Christmas Day was rather dull. The late hours, etc., were beginning to tell...
...those who are both good and bad. If our hearts were unalterably fixed for good or bad we should have no need to think of our ways; but as they are not we need to take an inventory of our stock and find out just where we stand. What season so fit as the present...
...college cannot but convey the idea that little interest is taken in them at all. More serious than this, however, is the case where the question takes the form of a reproof or a challenge. Then it is the place of every Harvard man to be able to stand up and defend the actions of his university against outside attacks. But in order to do this he must know the ground on which he is standing. He ought to follow closely, not only the actions of athletic committees, but also of the governing boards of the university...