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AUTHORS' READING.On Longfellow's birthday, Monday, Feb. 27, an authors' reading will be given in Sander's Theatre, beginning at 7.15 p. m. The readers will be Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, William Winter, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Townsend Trowbridge, Louise Chandler Moulton, John Boyle O Reilly, George Parsons Lathrop, Charles Follen Adams and Charlotte Fiske Bates. Augustus Mendon Lord will read Holmes' "Chambered Nautilus" and Lowell's "Tribute...
...Leavitt, '89, entered in the pole-vault and tied at 9 ft. Penny packer, '88, and Gibson, '88, put the shot, Pennypacker winning with a put of 34 ft. 8 in., Gibson's best being 31 ft. 8 in. The mile walk was contested by Brackett, Paine, Howe and Burlingham, all of '91. Won by Bracket in 8 min. 21 sec. Cogswell, '88, and Myles, '88, entered the half-mile run, the former winning in 2 min. 24 sec. As there was no contest in the high jump. the sports were finished by the mile run between Dana...
...Sander's Theatre on the evening of Feb. 27th, we feel that we are advocating a highly worthy object. It may, perhaps, be well to state that the reading is given in aid of the Longfellow Memorial Fund, and that several well-known authors, among them Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, have promised to read selections from their works. The entertainment cannot fail to be interesting, and the object is so worthy that we are anxious to impress on all that it is their duty to attend. Even if attendance on the part of some...
...held is so worthy of encouragement, and the interest in the matter is so great, that the affair cannot fail to be a success. Several well-known authors have shown their interest by offering to read selections from their own works. Among them are the following: Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Winter, Louise Chandler Moulton, John Boyle O'Reilly, George Parsons Lathrop, Charles Follen Adams and Charlotte Fiske Bates...
...proceeds of which will be added to the fund. The movement is wholly independent of the Memorial Association, but has, of course, its warmest wishes for success. It is expected that the following authors will take part. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Edward Everett Hale, Julia Ward Howe, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Winter, John Boyle O'Reilly, Arlo Bates, George Parsons Lathrop and Louise Chandler Moulton. Tickets will be for sale in Cambridge and Boston, Feb. 9th and 10th...