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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gradual change in Shakspere's versification through his life; and, for any one anxious to understand the poet, it cannot fail to be interesting to read the familiar plays under the light thrown on them from time by the papers and discussions of this Society. It is pleasant to know that the founders of the Society do not intend to confine its benefits to the number, necessarily small, of those who make a study of Shakspere occupy a large part of their time, but that the "Society's work is essentially one of popularization; of stirring up the intelligent study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

...anywhere, out of the room. You have collected a jolly set for euchre or vingt-et-un, and, coming into your room, find your chum hard at work upon his next theme. Though the conflict of purposes be amicably settled in both cases, you must feel how much more pleasant it would be to be sure of having your room free, when you want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOMING ALONE. | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

...favor of a chum, but a larger experience probably informs him that there are many inconveniences attending such a way of living. Very often, too, it happens that, from no desire of your chum's or your own, company men drop in because your room is a convenient and pleasant loafing-place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

...were disappointed in the "Beautiful Slave," which the College Herald parades at the head of its "Literary" department. Its badness is hardly even enough to make it pleasant reading; yet there are a few passages for which striking is perhaps the best term. For instance, the extraordinary manifestation of second-sight in the first stanza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

...very few rooms for secular purposes in existence which can be compared with it. Built to keep alive precious examples of brave devotion to country, truth, and duty, it is a place to be proud of and to become attached to, - a place around which in successive generations pleasant associations and inspiring memories will gather, - a place to exert upon the opening mind of youth a wholesome though unnoticed influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENTS REPORT. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

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