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...Technology this fall, and infinitely better than anything our university eleven of last year ever displayed, thus showing how much good this plan of class games has accomplished in the way of bringing out new men and developing the old ones. Both sides dropped on the ball in good style yesterday, Peabody being especially noticeable in this respect. For '87, Brooks, Bartol, Burgess, Fletcher and Peabody played the best game. For '86, Burnett, Fisk, Austin and Kimball did the best work, though the backs were loose in their catching all through the game...
...essay on "Marlowe and His Times" shows familiarity with subject. Mr. Norton has also presented it in an attractive diction. His philosophy may be attacked, but his style is fully in accord with the high ideal of the editors of the Monthly...
...Shakespeare Concordance by Mr. Davenport Adams, that journal, which is certainly an authority, not only spells the name "Shakspeare," but further remarks: "Mr. Adams gives a practical illustration of the license now given to cultivated persons to spell Shakspeare in whatever way they like, by adopting one style on the title page and another on the text." From this it would appear that the Shakspeare Club has a perfect right to spell its name in whatever manner it pleases, and a little eccentricity on its part cannot be regarded in the serious way that the "Member of English...
...that one of the injured players was "probably fatally injured." Such rhetorical efforts as this, savor over much of the morbid, and we trust that the writer of the glaring account, will, in the future, curb his imaginative enthusiasm and adopt a little less of the conventional dime novel style...
...same time, there are many things which require just as much practice relatively as criticism. This class of work binds one more or less to a set method of thought, and a narrow way of looking at things. You cannot gather figs from thistles, nor acquire a ready style and ample vocabulary from constant application of the familiar, "What does the author attempt? Is the attempt worth while? Is the attempt successful?" These three phrases stand like ghouls at the mental feast of every wretched sophomore, and, with cruel knives carve his repast into morsels to suit themselves...