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...criticism of the English department recently published has excited wide comment. Nor can we deny that the comment has not been wholly favorable to the department criticised. The English department is, as all must know, in a far from prosperous condition, if we are to judge prosperity strictly by compactness of work. No one at present contends that an ultimate basis for thorough university work in English literature has as yet been attained at Harvard. Indeed, the provision for honors in English has only been in force during the past two years. But we are not to judge prosperity wholly...
...open to any member of the two lower classes who by his contributions to the paper shall prove his eligibility to the position. No man who feels interested in competing need feel restrained from doing so as the competition is made as general as possible. There has been a wide spread interest already manifested but it is hoped that more will be led to contribute...
...Samuel Longfellow will publish some reminiscenses of the early life and letters of his brother the poet, in the Christmas number of Wide Awake...
...This man is Dennison - whose fame was wide-spread...
...their glory shone, is fading already, as their glory faded. The bridge is all ablaze with red light, and the air is full of hissing rockets and golden rain. But the light in the old castle is dying. One by one the rugged towers, the pillars and sculptures, the wide, desolate windows return, to the solemn, brooding darkness whence they so suddenly leapt. Decay and ruin can be replaced - never reinstated. Black night settles once more, and into it looms once more the shadowy mountain. The last red ray quivers for an instant in the Octagon Tower and then goes...