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Wright in his "Dies Irae," indeed, recalls the old formula, but the picture he paints is so vididly colored that one is willing to pardon him for giving only a picture...
...apoplexy at his home in New York city on Tuesday. After graduating from the Law School in 1868, he entered the office of Chandler, Shattuck and Thayer in Boston, and in the same year was made Justice of the Peace. During the next year he was chief of the Pardon Bureau in the office of United States Attorney General in Washington, and since that time practiced law in New York, where he was made Commissioner of the United States Court of Claims...
...editorial is worth reading--and believing. In "College Kodaks" the Advocate editors have set themselves the hard task of commenting, lightly and yet with no obvious attempt at joking, upon the little happenings and phases of college life. For the excellence of the aim, one may easily pardon the treatment which has as yet been only partly satisfactory...
...third act Granger is discovered trying to climb into Genevote's window by means of the ladder. He is caught in the act by La Tremblaye, who threatens to have him arrested for house breaking. Manon arrives at this juncture and attempts to get her father's pardon by promising to marry La Tremblaye. Granger will not consent at first, but finally yields on condition that he be allowed to marry Genevote. To this La Tremblaye agrees, and to celebrate the marriage Granger tells Corbineli, Charlot Granger's servant, to arrange a comedy for the celebration. Corbineli is also told...
...Little Anne" by C. S. Harper 3S. The characters in the story are very distinct and each one personally interesting. This writer understands the use of pathos, which figures largely in his second story, "Number Two Seventeen," the sad history of a convict and his too-long delayed pardon...