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...fitted for College at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N. H., and was graduated from Harvard at the head of his class in 1844, and from the Harvard Law School in 1846. Among his college classmates were Francis Parkman, William M. Hunt, the artist; Benjamin Apthorp Gould and General E. A. Wild of Brookline...
...will restrict its work in the future to smoke-talks and public addresses, aiming, through the first, to educate its members in the subject of good government by introducing prominent reformers from the Faculty and the vicinity of Boston, and in the latter to encourage interest in the work among the members of the University at large by bringing to Cambridge men of national repute. Smoke-talks will be held once a month throughout the year...
...struck many people at Soldiers Field on Saturday that those students who, presumably as novitiates of some College society, exhibited themselves in a burlesque of Indian dress and practices, chose in this a peculiarly objectionable means of attracting public attention. The young men who come here from Carlisle are among the best representatives of an unfortunate, but manly and dignified race; and they should receive from all spectators here, and especially from Harvard men, that courteous and respectful treatment which they are perfectly able to exact from the players who meet them hand to hand in the line...
...best pieces in the current number of the Lampoon are the bits of verse. Among the poetical squibs are several which are rich in both humor and local color...
...Ropes was widely known as an historical writer. Among his best works are the "Story of the Civil War," "The Army under Pope," "The First Napoleon: A Sketch, Political and Military," "The Campaign of Waterloo" and the "Atlas of Waterloo...