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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"Notes on Shakespeare's Versification" is the title of a short treatise recently written by Mr. G. H. Browne, '78. It will be a useful work for many of our students. It is very neatly printed, and is inter-leaved with blank pages for noting down illustrative passages. The notes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/9/1884 | See Source »

The April Atlantic opens with the second and last part of "Drifting Down Lost Creek," one of the best short stories recently published, by Charles Egbert Craddock. Mr. Crawford's serial, "A Roman Singer," and Dr. Mitchell's "In War Time" both have two new chapters; and Henry James contributed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/9/1884 | See Source »

ROPE CLIMBING.Foster, '85, E. E. Allen, '84, and Pudor, '86, entered to see who could reach the ceiling of the gymnasium. This year, Jim, the gymnasium boy, was perched on a ladder to see which should be the first man up. Allen and Foster went up first. The usual safety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRD WINTER MEETING OF THE H. A. A. | 3/31/1884 | See Source »

"I'll tell you what we'll do, fellows," said the stroke. "As No. 4 isn't coming, suppose we coax that dude there to take a row and burst him all up?" The perpetration of this time-honored joke upon a "softy" was received with approbation, and the newcomer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUGHT A TARTER. | 3/27/1884 | See Source »

The next section contains some admonitions to the readers themselves. It says :-Inasmuch as the task imposed upon the students often proves too difficult to be mastered unless the pen is called upon to aid the memory, it is enacted, that the lecturers shall make as little haste as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD OXFORD CUSTOMS. | 3/27/1884 | See Source »

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