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Reports of last week to the contrary, despatches from Excelsior Springs, Mo., indicate that Jess Willard has broken under the strain of training for his fight with Floyd...
...vicissitudes for the background provides delightful pictures of villagers and nature on the stormy Massachusetts coast. Beyond doubt a romance between a fisherman and a Martha's Vineyard maiden was just what Poe had in mind. We hope that the field thus opened up will be fruitful. Longfellow's "Excelsior," for example, could be made into a stunning movie of a poor girl working in an excelsior factory and tyrannized over by the brutal factory manager. A rattling picture of Harvard undergraduate life, with the temptations to which college youths are subjected, could be made out of Lowell's "Harvard...
...line which is now "The woods and templed hills" was first written "Our woods and sacred hills," while "Let all that breathe partake the sound prolong," was originally "Let all that breathe partake the scared song." In the same case with "America" is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem "Excelsior" written at three o'clock in the morning on the back of a letter from Wendell Phillips. In another case are parts of the original manuscript of "The Uncommerical Traveller" in Dickens' unreadable scrawl, and of the "Roundabout Papers" written by Thackeray in a hand that resembles printed script...
...Excelsior" that college boys (and girls) have sung about for almost three generations seems to have been placed on the banner of the Harvard Glee Club to far greater purpose than was ever dreamed of in the old days of our college memories. The recent concert here by the Harvard men bore out eloquently the praise given them in Boston and New York as one of the best male choruses in America. Now comes an invitation from the French Government to visit France and give several concerts there, with a further bait added to this honor in the statement that...
...Medical School: George Cheyne Shattuck Memorial Fellowship: Thomas Foster Wheeldon, of Moberly, Mo.; John Ware Memorial Fellowship: Ernest Waters Wescott, of Boston; Charles Eliot Ware Memorial Fellowship: James Howard Brown, of Jamaica Plain; James Jackson Cabot Fellowship: George Richards Minot '08, of Boston; Lawson Gentry Lowrey, M.D. '15, of Excelsior Springs, Colo