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...Mathematical Club meeting in Conant Common Room. "The Limit of the Ratio of Arc to Chord," by Dr. G. M. Green...
...drawings, we are privately informed are almost all by the editors. The best is a clever caricature on the first page, which gives point to an ancient jest. The centre page will wake a responsive chord in the breasts of many. "Everybody's Dance" admirably sets forth a social tragedy. There are funny things too in the picture of the "Junior Dance" on the last page...
...appeared "Vanity Fair," Thackeray's most powerful work. With terrible truth he painted the frivolous world of London society, and with scathing satire laid its nature bare. A chord of sombreness and melancholy sounds through the book, for Thackeray was not painting the world but arraigning a society in which all was indeed vanity and where the play was indeed "played...
...have not the time to create fancies for themselves. If the purpose alone be considered, the book might be called successful. The verses are written in an offhand manner, with sometimes careless metre. The point usually turns on some modern "gag," but some of the verses touch a serious chord, while many have a note of sweetness...
...Spinal Chord...