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While we read in the Yale papers such alarming accounts of the Yale crew, our 'Varsity is quietly pursuing its daily task without drawing much attention. Now that athletics seem virtually over for this season, and every one is settling down to work upon his annuals, we are too apt to become forgetful of the men who are to represent the crimson at New London. To visit the boat-house and see the crew push off is truly not very edifying, but every attention shown them is a slight incentive to greater effort. We have not the means of going...
...Biography, by W. Sloane Kennedy. Moses King, Cambridge, Mass., Publisher." Of the many books that have been offered as biographies of the late Henry W. Longfellow, in our modest opinion, the best has come from the press of Moses King, of the class of '81. It is no small task to render pleasant and entertaining the history of the life of such a man as Longfellow. His career can hardly be called an eventful one; he passed the most of his days in quiet and peace, "within the shade of his own fig tree." The many blessings that fortune...
...Nation says in regard to Prof. Child's forthcoming "English and Scottish Popular Ballads": "Prof. Childs' qualifications for his infinitely laborious and scholarly task it would be superfluous to descant upon. His purpose, steadfastly adhered to for a quarter of a century, at last bears fruit which will do honor to American literature...
...from the street, with an intricately carved fence, painted white, between it and the sidewalk. The house is painted white also, to match the fence, or vice versa, and has green blinds, one or two of them with the lower hinge dislocated, which adds a pleasing variety to the task of closing them of a windy night...
Prof. F. J. Child is preparing a handsome edition of English and Scotch ballads, to be issued in eight parts, of two hundred and fifty pages each. This is a task which is said to have never been performed in this country. Prof. Child's name is a surety that the work will be done ably...