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...Though all her charms of earth's most lovely...
...folly in neglecting it. Judging the future by the past, the same will be the case, I fear, with many of us in regard to improving the opportunities offered to us by the College in shape of our Evening Readings. When the readings in Shakespeare were given last year, though at an hour very uncomfortable to many of us, the interest was strong, and the room was crowded almost to suffocation; but now a course of readings in the same author, by the same professor, while highly appreciated by the Cambridge society, hardly draws fifty students, though given...
However, there is an entirely different kind of fault-finding, which, though often not less ridiculous than the former, merits more attention. These ebullitions of college discontent, remarkable chiefly for their number, find vent in the college papers; hence, in order better to judge of them, it might be well to examine a recent copy of the Advocate...
...That every one is equally gifted with the poetic faculty, whether for composition or appreciation," I said (for I am a little given to being sententious at times, though from what professor I learned it, it would be impolite and impolitic to say), "I do not pretend, but certainly all possess it in some degree." Here I drew a long breath, and he sighed...
...depraved taste to evince other than sentiments of pleasure at its performance, inasmuch as Boston audiences have, during the past few weeks, repeatedly signified their approbation of it by much laughter and applause, - and Boston audiences are supposed to be au fait in such matters; but it seems as though it would have been a cause of much delight to the undergraduate mind had the young woman who sustained the part lumped the whole thing, so to speak, and by taking the entire bottle at one draught, converted herself into an infant in a much shorter space of time...