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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Irving, as he stood before his audience last evening, differed but little from the Irving with whom all have become familiar upon the stage. His tones were the same which have been so often heard behind the footlights: his delivery was marked by the same careful enunciation and emphasis which lends it its peculiar charm. In the subject matter of his lecture there was much that was of necessity somewhat trite, but the sombre current of the subject was lightened by many gleams of anecdote and wit. At many passages in which the lecturer rose to the height of true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Irving Lecture. | 3/31/1885 | See Source »

...winning of the Mott Haven cup on the same eventful day. But, even on this great occasion, the college exulted without firecrackers and horns; and, furthermore, this was the only celebration of the year. Now, however, a class victory is sufficient to turn the college into an uproar, and often the boom of the firecracker is heard in the yard merely when some individual is festive on his own account. And yet this noisy sort of hilarity is forbidden by the regulations. The connection between these forbidden demonstrations and the Athletic committee, if there is one, (we merely offer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/30/1885 | See Source »

...sofa stood beneath a window too, and I remember when quite a child kneeling upon it to look out and watch the birds that came for crumbs, and the snowberry bushes outside waving too and fro in the storm, or budding peacefully in the warm sunlight. Then how often in childish fits of anger or fretfulness, have I rushed to it, and buried my face in the cushion, and watered the mammoth flowers with my tears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: My Sofa. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

...just beginning to break up in the river, and the state of Holmes and Jarvis is anything but satisfactory for the prospects of the base-ball and lacrosse teams. The lesson to be drawn from this state of affairs is perfectly plain. It has been too often called to our notice to require much elaboration now. Our teams must make up for their forced inactivity by increased exertions when the period of propitious weather does arrive, and the base-ball men may find some consolation in the thought that Hanover is even further towards the north than Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

...during the evening, an essay of several pages length, and, on going to bed, repeating it word for word, from beginning to end. De Quincey immortalized himself by his wonderful visions. There is that remarkable work of Cicero's on the vision of Scipio, a work that I have often thought must have suggested to Richter the idea embodied in his well-known Dream of The Universe. Bunyan is continually saying, "Now I saw in my dream." And thus a thousand and one instances might be cited, in which, merely as a flight of the imagination, or to serve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Dreams. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

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