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Dates: during 1890-1899
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SOPHOMORES.1. William Wilson Baker, of Jamaica Plain...
...placing Grahame of Claver-house in his scene. Stevenson, a perfect little romantic, has given us, notably in "The Master of Ballantrae," marvels of last-century English, shrewdly touched with lowland Scotch; Mr. Crockett, an imperfect little romantic, has garnished what purports to be, in "The Raiders," a plain narrative of eighteenth century prose, with such words as "spontaneity" and "crescendo," such phrases as "a happy inspiration." In spite of their faults and crudities, however, and in spite of their lack of fine workmanship, "The Raiders" and "The Men of the Moss Hags" are always spirited and frequently picturesque...
Thomas Parker Proctor '54, a prominent member of the Suffolk bar, died suddenly yesterday morning at his house in Jamaica Plain...
...breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow to the west creates Pawcatuck river. On the southern side, the moraine is fronted by a plain of sand and gravel, spread out by the wash of ice-water from the margin of the glacial sheet. This plain slopes to the sea-shore, where a number of lagoons are enclosed by off-shore, wave-built barrier-beaches...
...trust that no member of the University who lives within the limits of Old Cambridge will let the day pass without subscribing his name in support of so worthy an object as that of the improvement of the post office. The needs of the office are so plain that no comment of ours should be required to convince any one of the necessity for immediate action on the part of the authorities at Washington. The question which will probably come to the minds of most men will probably be as to just why members of the University should concern themselves...