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...after that time it is most potent to rouse all the innate evil of which that savage breast is capable. Study is quite impossible when a tuneful youth, lost in musical devotion, is giving vent to a series of efforts which cannot but be easily heard even from afar off. When more than one is performing, as sometimes happens, the effect is indescribable-it is really unique. But, in all seriousness, men ought to be more careful how they break the rules in this respect, for any such violation results in a great deal of annoyance to their neighbors. Because...
...Bostonian," exclaims the reviewer with pride, as he examines the "Hand-book of Boston Harbor," prepared by M. F. Sweetser and published by Moses King (Cambridge: $1). As he reads of the beauty of the Jerusalem Road and scents afar the delights of "Taft's," he almost wonders how he has been persuaded to spend the summer any where but on his native heath - or harbor. The "Hand-book" is an elaborate compilation of good illustrations and useful description, combining timely advertisements with appropriate extracts from Whittier, Thoreau, Howells...
...Prex saw the Freshman from afar...
...sometimes serious, fixt afar...
Bide ye the time, for afar the once-honored city of Pallas...