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...class are requested to examine one of these lists and see that the names and addresses are correctly entered. The class blanks have been sent out. Any men who have not received them should notify the secretary at once. Men are requested to return the blanks at their earliest convenience...
...names of the contestants with the times assigned to those who have applied have been posted on the door of Dane Hall. All others wishing to compete and men who have not applied for times to speak should sign at once, as the first to apply will receive the earliest hours. M. Tardieu's "La Conference D'Algesiras" has been reserved in the Gore Hall reading room for the use of the contestants...
...actors, the earliest to distinguish himself was H. G. Eisenstadt '12, who played to the life a naive peddler. Hartwell himself was taken by R. M. Middlemass '09, whose acting grew steadily better from beginning to end, a gentle, noble, and at every crisis finely impassioned figure. Miss Gragg in an uneven role gave through the last two acts so sincere a performance that the house broke into applause at her defiance of the Rabbi, and then at the last became physically uncomfortable over her anguish at Hartwell's well-acted deatn. Her appeals, her sobs, her despair, were surprisingly...
...rarest is perhaps a copy of the "Obsequies of John Kean," in which Milton's Lycidas first appeared. There is also a copy of the first printed collection of his poems, dated 1645. A copy of the second folio edition of Shakspere's works, which contains Milton's earliest printed work now extant, his lines on Shakspere has been loaned for the exhibit. The controversial tracts are represented by about 30 volumes. "Paradise Lost" is shown in a large number of editions beginning with two states of the first published...
...apart a day of general thanksgiving in the harvest season has spread from the shores of New England throughout the land until today it has become a thoroughly established national festival. Harvard College, more perhaps than any other similar institution, is distinctly associated with Thanksgiving Day, first because the earliest observances are to be found in and about Boston, and secondly because the first proclamation making a day of thanksgiving a national concern was drawn up by Samuel Adams, a graduate of this College...