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English 13, a half-course in literary criticism in England since the sixteenth century, conducted by Mr. Gates replaces English...
...Dante Prize of fifty dollars has been awarded to J. D. M. Ford of the Graduate school for an essay on "Dante's Influence on Spanish Literature During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries...
...Dedham road-race, held last week, eight Harvard men rode. They were: J. F. Wood, H. C. Burdett, J. F. Marsden, W. D. Eaton, H. G. Hurt, E. D. Powers, A. E. Dacey and H. H. Richards. E. D. Powers was the only man that was placed, he being sixteenth. Three of the men fell during the course. The men made as good a showing as could be expected, as they were riding against the fastest road riders in New England...
...critic, he was insensible to Scott, to Byron, to Shelley, to the contemporary in general; he preferred Smollet to Fielding, and yet could not read Gil Blas; but towards the English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he showed himself a critic of genius. Although Lamb did more, however, for bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth...
...very sensitive Cramer dry-plate about four inches long and 1.5 inches wide, was put, film side up, into a wooden box, having a close-fitting sliding wooden cover. Upon the sensitive plate were laid two clear glass slips, less than one sixteenth of an inch thick. A space was left between them about four inches long and one half an inch deep. Across the glass slips to hold them in place was put a narrow bar of pine wood five-sixteenths of an inch thick. The wooden cover, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, was then pushed into place...