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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- The college has returned to the usual routine of hard work in studies and athletics after the break occasioned by the Senior German Glee Club concert and Junior Assembly on the 13th and 14th of February and the exercises on Washington's Birthday. The Senior German was given at the Ivy Club on the night of the 13th, and the Junior Assembly immediately after the Glee Club concert on the 14th, and for those two days Princeton put on an unusually gay appearance, and with numbers teas and receptions in the entries and at the Joy Club...
...introductory remarks, in the course of which he said: "It was the custom in Ben Jonson's days, upon the death of a writer, for his brethren of the profession to throw their pens into the grave. And to-night we, the friends of him, the anniversary of whose birthday we commemorate, lay down a few selections of our literary labors to his memory." At the conclusion of his speech, Colonel Higginson read a short poem called "Dame Cragie." The Rev. Augustus M. Lord, a poet of considerable repute, then gave Longfellow's "The Chambered Nautilus." The first author introduced...
AUTHORS' READING.On Longfellow's birthday, Monday, Feb. 27, an authors' reading will be given in Sander's Theatre, beginning at 7.15 p. m. The readers will be Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, William Winter, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Townsend Trowbridge, Louise Chandler Moulton, John Boyle O Reilly, George Parsons Lathrop, Charles Follen Adams and Charlotte Fiske Bates. Augustus Mendon Lord will read Holmes' "Chambered Nautilus" and Lowell's "Tribute...
Exercises in commemoration of Washington's birthday will be held as usual at the Boston Latin School, Warren Ave., on Tuesday morning Feb. 21, at 10 o'clock...
...Authors' Reading at Sander's Theatre, in aid of the Longfellow Memorial Fund, on the evening of the poet's birthday, Feb. 27th, promises to offer an unusually attractive programme. The object for which the entertainment is to be held is so worthy of encouragement, and the interest in the matter is so great, that the affair cannot fail to be a success. Several well-known authors have shown their interest by offering to read selections from their own works. Among them are the following: Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Winter, Louise Chandler Moulton, John...