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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lovejoy climbed the hill Saturday." A daisy on a hill-side is a picture that appeals to our most poetic natures. This item for a time completely absorbs our thoughts, until of a sudden we read with greatest surprise that "Miss Harris has a class in painting." The "fast express (limited)" brings us home with unpleasant haste. A local that is western becomes vividly eastern...
...wind scurried about, shaking the doors, rattling the windows, and fluttering the files of exchanges. The Board had the blues. Once the Poet (Fact and Rumor Man) as he glanced up at the two-forked flame which sputtered despairingly from the single gas burner, allowed his melancholy spirit to express itself. "Our only light comes from a cloven hoof," he said, grimly...
...Nassau Literary Magazine, the Williams Literary Monthly and the Harvard Monthly are now before us. In looking over the numbers from abroad we are struck with the attempts at depth of thought and at real argument. In many cases the writers have opinions, and show a willingness to express them; in a word they are not afraid of being serious. As a result, the magazines become something more than literary, and please the thought as well as the taste of the reader. But setting them aside and taking up the "Harvard Monthly" we are inclined to think that the name...
...recent issue of the N. Y. Times was a very pertinent article on incompetent lectures. It was called forth by the press criticisms on the delivery of Canon Farrar, who expresses himself as pleased with the frankness of the American papers. There have been a number of English lecturers in this country who are deplorably deficient in the rudiments of good delivery, and however much they are popular in their own country, to gain respect for an American audience, they must at least be able to express themselves in a moderately effective manner. The day is fast coming when...
...course of lectures on "Modern Socialism," to be given in Sever by Rev. John G. Brooks, is initiated tonight with a discourse on "The Revolutionary Type." To say that a large audience will probably assemble to hear the lecturer is merely to express the great interest which all thoughtful Harvard men feel in the subject of Modern Socialism. The college may certainly congratulate itself on this opportunity of hearing an able lecturer discourse on one of the most urgent subjects of the day. Sever 11 seems to have been especially fortunate this year in the men that have spoken from...