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Last Sunday the members of the University Glee, Mandolin and Banjo Clubs returned from the most successful western trip that the Harvard Musical Clubs have ever taken. The Clubs made a distinctly favorable impression in every city they visited, and the men were enthusiastic over the great reception which was...
The most ambitious piece of verse is "Poet and Philistine." This is so long and circumstantial that one is tempted, forgetting the point, to look on it merely as an enumeration of fair women, and to exclaim "Yes, but you have forgotten Anne Hathaway and Manon Lescaut!" Among the other...
Of the verse, Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez contributes a Christmas sonnet in dignified yet not quite comfortable English; Mr. Greene a quatrain, which, like most attempts at packing poetry, wants ease and life; Mr. Aiken a longer poem ("The Spirit of Christmas Eve"), which shows little individuality, and not much responsiveness...
As a whole the number is readable, seasonable, and surprisingly varied. Like other numbers and like most of our students' publications, it would be the better for accurate proof-reading
Seventy-five years ago, the "dignity of history" necessitated the portrayal of Washington as a man of frigid formality; nowadays, popularizers seek to strip the Father of his Country and show that he possessed many of the worst attributes of erring hamanity. Mr. Owen Wister has down neither of these...