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YOUR last issue contained an interesting and amusing communication relative to the stained-glass window in Memorial Hall. The author of that communication confesses his ignorance of the character which the design was intended to represent, although the name of Sir Philip Sidney was inscribed on the window, and mistakes that pensive individual for the Chevalier Bayard who was destined to occupy the other half of the double window...
DEAR SIRS, - Can you give me any information in regard to the stained-glass window by Mr. Lafarge which paid us a short visit in Memorial Hall last winter? For a short while we were daily rejoiced by the spectacle of a faded young gentleman whose striking feature was a very long pair of lilac legs, and who balanced himself on the edge of (apparently) a dining-room table, as if he had suddenly felt faint and needed support. There was always a doubt in my mind whether he was Sir Philip Sidney or the Chevalier Bayard. I always supposed...
Nicholas's voice is a rare one, full, rich, and uncultivated, yet very sweet withal. I remember that often, crossing the Public Garden, and hearing the familiar voice singing, under a Beacon Hill window, I have had the bad taste to sit down upon one of the benches to listen, and imagine myself in Italy hearing a lover serenade his lady. Once indeed, on a June morning, when the birds twittered and Nicholas sang so that I forgot my annual awaiting me, I followed him up and down, until, meeting a severely critical friend, I basely shielded myself by asserting...
...inscribed: "H. U. B. B. C., season of 1877, prize for the best batting, to James A. Tyng. Average first-base hits, .297; average total base hits, .419." The bat for the coming season is made of ebony with a silver plate. Both are on exhibition in the window of Mr. Bartlett...
...State St. window...