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...they were on a shopping tour, she walked out of the door, slipped into a cab that the Marquis of Hastings had ready, drove directly to church, married the Marquis. About three years later, at the Derby of 1867, Hastings' horse was favorite. Chaplin's horse, Hermit, broke a blood vessel about a month before the race and went to the stake at odds of: 100 to 1. Just before the race Chaplin took every bet that was, offered. The race was run in a snow-storm and Hermit won, netting his master upwards of $500,000. Hastings...
...Burrell '24 Students. R. L. Morehouse '24 K. R. Childs '24 "Savitri" Aswapati. King of Madra. Philip Wardner '24 Sheela. Queen of Madra. Miss Gertude Hoffman Savitri. Princess of Madra. Miss Agnes James Meira. Her Friend. Miss Gardner Sabjavan, Prince of Salva. F. DeW. Pingree '24 Narad. the Hermit. R. Des. Childs '24 Vams, King of Death. W. C. Jackson 1G. "The Maharani of Arakan" Amina, Miss Dorothy Rohoneium, Miss Agues James Dalia, J.J. Collier '24 Tung Loo, W.C. Jackson IG. Rahmat Sheikh, r. DeS. Childa...
...least. And "dead men's tales" are always the most interesting! That they are expected to find a ready audience over here is evident, for McClure paid in the neighborhood of a quarter of a million dollars for them--enough to buy several cords of wood for the industrious "hermit of Amerongen". It appears that his Highness has in reality been "sawing wood" all these years and to no idle pecuniary purpose...
...genuine his prayer for "the feathered thrill of birds." Mr. La Farge's "To My Goddess" exhibits feeling for the music of verse and contains pretty details. Unhappily the reviewer's copy omits the last line of the second and last stanza, and reads,--"Then lovelier than the hermit-thrush's call, Than whip-poor-will's insistent threnody, Christopher La Farge '20" which, I am sure, was not the poet's intention...
...title, is a study in anti-climax which hardly entertains us enough as we go along to make us forgive the hoax. "Chapters from a Summer Romance" is conventional in detail and feeble in situation: in the descriptive parts "scarcely a sound broke the quiet," although a hermit thrush "could be heard in the distance; in the narrative part we have, in addition to some very unreal dialogue, the old, old ending! "Thereupon he turned upon his heel and strode off into the night." Heroes ought to behave with more originality that that...