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...while at times he allows this heroic-worship to color some of his accounts, his story of her life is, in general, correct and readable. He tells of her "childhood at Steventon," her "first visit to Bath," her "removal to Bath," her enjoyment of society there, and a thousand and one things which are or interest to the admirers of Miss Austen. Mr. Adams spent the summer of 1889 in visiting all the localities once familiar to Jane Austen and the descriptions of Bath, Steventon, Chamton, and other places can therefore be said to have the merit of accuracy...
Never before had so large a crowd been seen on an Exeter campus. The four or five thousand spectators showed how much confidence each side placed in its eleven. It seemed, however as if Andover realized that cool, steady work alone would win the game, while Exeter did not wake up to the fact that defeat was possible until it was too late to make any essential difference in the score. Andover cheered lustily even when success seemed to be leaving her, but no sooner had the tables turned, when a spirit of despondency seized both Exeter students and players...
This year the seats for the Harvard-Yale game will extend entirely around the field. The east stand, seating five thousand, will be reserved as in previous years for Harvard, while the opposite side with the same capacity, will be occupied by Yale. The stands at the south and north ends will also have a seating capacity of five thousand and will be filled by the general public. The Yale and Harvard seats will each be divided into ten sections, and 500 tickets with the section indicated will be sold for each division. The price for reserved seats...
...Little Old French Woman," is an admirable sketch of a bizarre old creature who on being raised to comparative affluence by a legacy of fifty thousand francs, founds an asylum for straw cats. The touches of character sketching are well laid on, although the idea of the thing as a whole is suggestive of T. B. Aldrich's translation from the French of "The Story...
...grand stand at Hampden Park, Springfield, of which plans have been completed by a Springfield architect, will shortly be erected. The entire number of seats will be twenty one thousand - six thousand more than last year. This increase is at the cost of all positions for tally-hos. The stand is to have twenty-six rows of seats, the highest row being some twenty five feet from the ground, and is to be five hundred feet long, by three hundred and twenty-five wide. Archways at both ends will serve as entrances, and between the seats and the field...