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...playing; and, with one exception, they have met with unbroken success. They showed a perhaps unnecessary devotion to the cause by arranging a game for Saturday last, which, in a measure, conflicted with the football game; but their enthusiasm augurs continued success. The college games will soon begin. The first will be played to-morrow with Brown at Providence; a week later, the 12th inst., comes a game with Amherst at Amherst; and on the 26th inst. the first game with Yale. We trust that some games may soon be arranged to be played out here, so that...
...ball game of last Saturday which deserve notice. The police arrangements were the worst we have ever seen at any match game in Cambridge; many rowdies and other persons without tickets entered the grounds and took seats before play had begun, and the scene at the end of the first half of the game, when the "muckers," unrestrained in the least degree by the police, rushed in and covered the grounds, was highly discreditable to all those who had the management of the game. The view of the ladies on the lower benches was obstructed for some time, and general...
...sarcasm. We, therefore, profiting by such an example, simply offer our congratulations to the Beacon for its peculiarly elevated style and tone. May we suggest, however, that it is not universally acknowledged that the line "Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," is by Shakespeare. Some persons contend that it is the first line of a lost work, "The Traveller," by an obscure poet named Goldsmith. We are in perfect sympathy with the Beacon, and only doubt whether it praises sufficiently the institution which it represents. It is absurd for the Argus to speak of local pride and petty conceit. When a great...
...first line is very pretty, being a judicious combination of Ovid, Met. II. 29, and X. 1. This patching is quite legitimate, and we wish all the rest were similarly constructed. The fourth and fifth lines also are correct, metrically; but esuries is a terribly rare and unpoetical word. In line second, opibus has the o short, so it cannot begin a hexameter. In line third, the perfect of fundo is not fusi, and the line is very jerky. Risit would have scanned as well, and suited the other tenses better. In line sixth, coronae cannot begin a hexameter...
Here, then, in five lines out of eight, is a series of radical blunders in quantity and formation, every one of which requires no further reading than the first book of the Aeneid to set right. After that, considerations of the general style, transference of thought, building up of sentences, are superfluous. There is so much fatally bad that it is not worth asking if there is anything good...