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Dear President Eliot: The end of the Senior year of the class of 1904 is rapidly approaching and as we look back and search for the benefits we have derived from Harvard, we may well say first of all that we have been one of the thirty-five classes under President Eliot...
...fiction, with the possible exception of "The Duke's Daughter," which succeeds by not aspiring too high, is hard to read and decidedly unsatisfying. Two stories involving college men as characters are tiresome and force the suggestion that in the search for "filler" the editor's drawer is being taxed too heavily. It seems a pity that a story so well written as "From the Best of Friends," should be spoiled by lack of clearness; less length and an explanation of some strange conversations and unaccountable actions would save it from being classed with the other stories of the issue...
...scene of the play is laid at Seville; the time is 1775. The Count Almaviva is infatuated with Rosine, whom he first saw at Madrid six months previous to the opening of the play. After a long search he discovers that Rosine lives at Seville with her guardian, Bartholo, a retired physician, who is very anxious to marry her. Upon Almaviva's arrival at Seville, he learns from Figaro, a barber, who was formerly in his service, but who is now employed by Bartholo, that Bartholo, proposes to marry Rosine on the next day against her will. Figaro advises Almaviva...
...purchase, were on exhibition in a large number of rooms. The attention of the responsible officers was called to this infringement of the rule, and its immediate enforcement was ordered. It consisted in the removal of all apparently stolen articles displayed in the rooms. Nothing fairly described as a 'search' for stolen articles was authorized: only those displayed were to be taken. The discovery of the infringement having been made on the last day of the recess, the enforcement fell within the same period. It was far from being intended that advantage should be taken of the absence...
...British Museum. Cass tells Punjab that the right ear of the idol is the key to the kingdom, so together they break it off, and each takes half. Sthu Pid, the Chinese guardian of the idol, at once discovers the theft, and greatly frightened, is about to make s search, when he is interrupted by the arrival of Eben Roger, the Mayor of Unity, Maine, with his daughter, Lily, and her maid, Sue Brett...