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Very annoying as well as amusing is your attitude toward Ireland. All the absurd bigotry of the "Transcript" has prevaded your editorials, and, like the snobbish offspring of a similarly snobbish parent you now patronize Ireland in her new freedom. "Through Tara's Hall", your most recent plaint, is particularly snotty...
...Chapman's special plaint is that "the whole body of graduates is being organized in a Harvard service, to employ Harvard men, to advertise Harvard, to make converts, to raise money, to assist in a general Harvard forward movement." As specific instances of the depraved advertising methods to which our governing bodies have had recourse in their efforts to keep Harvard numerically in the lead, Mr. Chaplian cites the use of the University's name in connection with President Eliot's edition of the classics, the "Joan of Arc" performance in the Stadium, the honors which were paid to President...
...with Prince Albert put an end to his wildest hopes, and then returned to his native land. Among his many gifts was a splendid voice; and the old ballad of "I'll Hang My Harp on a Willow Tree" was composed by him, she being the heroine of the plaint...
...this woful plaint she uttered...
...wind at eve e'er chants its plaint...