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Form Columbia appears in the spring of each year the Columbiad, most appropriately named of its fraternity of annuals, and one can generally count upon something interesting. Last year's number was no exception to the rule, though in many respects not up to our ideas of such a publication. It unfortunately possessed in some degree the fault common to most of its kind, weakness in illustration, but its general appearance is prepossessing. The heavy bound covers are a novel but sensible departure, while the outside design is very unique and artistic. In our opinion it makes a great mistake...
...Columbiad, just issued, has given universal satisfaction, and is considered the best publication of that nature ever issued. Some of the typographical errors were very amusing, especially those in the Athletic Records, where that most stupid of mortals, a printer's devil, has made a Hercules, Jr., throw a hammer "36 sec. ; " a bicycle ride two miles in " 13 ft., " and the running broad jump, a marvel...
...library of R. D. Child, of Boston, is to be sold at auction, commencing at 10 o'clock this forenoon, at No. 2 Beacon street. It contains many scarce Americana; including Barlow's "Columbiad;" "George Bancroft's Poems," published at Cambridge, 1823; Eliot's and Pierce's "Histories of Harvard College;" and Harvard Catalogues...
...Columbiad is to appear the 15th January...
...boss" game takes place every Thanksgiving Day between eleven tramps from Yale and an equal number from Princeton. Twenty-two men retire from the conflict covered with wounds and glory. Much lying done as to why and how this match is lost and won. See Yale, Princeton, &c. - Columbiad...