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...tour in a northerly direction, towards College Hill, discloses the fact that our neighbor, Tufts College, has this summer become possessed of a new chapel. It is a picturesque structure, built of rough, slate-colored stone, and is set off by a medieval-looking tower after the style of an Italian campanile. Its general symmetry is, in the opinion of some, slightly marred by several excrescences with small spires, that project from the roof and produce a somewhat unpleasant effect upon the near spectator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 10/13/1882 | See Source »

...examines the "Hand-book of Boston Harbor," prepared by M. F. Sweetser and published by Moses King (Cambridge: $1). As he reads of the beauty of the Jerusalem Road and scents afar the delights of "Taft's," he almost wonders how he has been persuaded to spend the summer any where but on his native heath - or harbor. The "Hand-book" is an elaborate compilation of good illustrations and useful description, combining timely advertisements with appropriate extracts from Whittier, Thoreau, Howells...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "I, TOO, WAS A BOSTONIAN." | 10/11/1882 | See Source »

...Yale News, with its usual rancour toward Harvard and all things pertaining to Harvard, uses the following insolent language concerning the Harvard-Columbia affair : "To Columbia we may say that when the news reached us last summer that Harvard had thus refused to row, we were not at all surprised, remembering as we did the ways in which Harvard had attempted (and had too well succeeded) in having her say as regards the contests with us; and we were pleased when we heard that one of her own men had vigorously put a veto upon such conduct. To make their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 10/10/1882 | See Source »

SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme 1 will be due Oct. 24, in Sever 3, at 2 P. M. Subjects: "One of Plutarch's Lives in the Student's Own Language." 2. - "An Account of the Summer's Reading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BULLETIN. | 10/9/1882 | See Source »

Mary Anderson has profited immensely by her summer rest at Long Branch, her rides, and yachting. At the end of last season she gave evident signs of hard work, but she has entered upon the winter's duty looking the very picture of good health. She is a stronger favorite with the theatre-going public than ever, and the prospect is that at no time in her career has she made more money than she will this season. - [Progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC NOTES. | 10/7/1882 | See Source »