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...This afternoon Perkins came bringing the welcome news that Harry Keyes would be with us Thursday. Three-times-three for Keyes rang out with a clearness and volume that speake like nothing else the confidence all feel in him. Then arose another for Perkins that by no means lacked vigor and sincerity...
...been here the whole vacation, and seems to work with a vigor and determination that is a model for senior crews, or any crew, and the work is telling plainly in the improvment made in the rowing. The crew has been in a shell several days, but owing to the bad weather lately, it has been put into the barge again. There have been no changes since the last writing...
...infrequently the spiritual overflow is lacking. A man may have come of the noblest Puritan stock and have inherited the spiritual vigor of a long line of good men, but unless he is careful of his inheritance he will lose it. If his profession or business leaves him no time for spiritual development he grows weak and perhaps falls before temptations that would have been powerless, had he kept the health and strength that were his birthright. A man will gain the power to pass unharmed through temptation if he will put himself in communion with great men and deeds...
...report of prosperity which comes from the New York Harvard Club is gratifying. A prosperous and vigorous body of graduates is one of the surest guarantees of prosperity and vigor in the university itself. For this reason we rejoice in the reports of activity in Harvard clubs which come to us from all parts of the country. In the West Harvard clubs are interested in a movement to place a western graduate of the college on the Board of Overseers. However much we may question the expediency of the movement itself, we rejoice that it has come up for discussion...
Amid much that is good in the prose of the number, a sketch, entitled "As It is Done Now," might be selected as, on the whole, the most artistic piece of work. This, as all of the productions of its author's have been, is characterized by a simple vigor of expression, a boldness in conception of plot, and an excellent sense of the fitness of things. Mr. Flandrau excels rather in vivid descriptions than in character delineations, and in the sketch under discussion the descriptive portions are the best parts, for neither the hero nor the heroine...