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There is an article on the proposed intercollegiate regatta at the World's Fair which is interesting and which contains information new to most of us. The author says "The management is making great effort to secure entries from the leading American and English Universities, and hopes for success. The regatta will probably take place in August, late enough to allow Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania crews to recuperate after their annual engagements." The fiction and the poetry of the number are of very much the same nature as usual...
...Charlton Black will read his paper on the author of "Rob and His Friends" before the Women's Association of Boston, this week...
...spite of the driving storm last night a large number listened to one of the most interesting lectures yet given by Mr. Black in his course on English Literature. The subject was Alexander Pope. "It is necessary," he said, "in studying any author to consider carefully not only his life in connection with his works, but also the the life and political conditions of his time. There is always an intimate connection between the poetic and political life of any period and of none is this more true than of the Elizabethan time...
Richard Hovey of New York, Dartmouth '85, the author of "Launcelot and Guinevere," will be the poet at the National Convention of the Zeta Psi Upsilon to be held in Hanover, next...
...Tale," is far above its author's usual work, and is distinctly forcible and exciting...