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...fatality that had dragged Gunnar to his death seems now to pursue the family of Njal. The conspicuous character in this second part is Skarphethin, stalwart, always grimly smiling with his battle axe upraised. He kills his foster brother, and when at the Olthing a bully upbraids him, he smiled and striking forward said "Do now one of two things Thorkell foul-mouth, sheath your sword and set down or I'll drive the axe into your head, and cleave you down into the shoulders." Thorkell sat down. Njal and his sons are attacked and the house set on fire...
...Wilcox's story "McClane of the Harvards" shows much cleverness in its treatment of those two antagonistic elements of Harvard life,- athletic enthusiasm and cultivated indifference. It is the author's excellent delineation of these two phases of college life,- as exemplified by Phil McClane, the stalwart' Varity football player, and Mr. Percival Perrion, the well-spring of whose life is "Culture and Discriminating Appreciativeness," which makes this story one of the best of the year...
...following transparency was prepared with infinite labor by Messrs. Brewer, Garrison, Cogswell, Furness and Paine, and was borne through the entire parade unharmed, on the stalwart shoulders of two sable Africans. The transparency stood seven feet high, and was a correct copy of the chapel, the part representing the building made of pasteboard with the stone work sketched in, and the windows in stained glass,- formed a pretty sight. Below was a large transparency bearing the legends as seen in our cut; and, in addition, on the opposite side, a specimen sumons-card under the old regime, labelled, "The good...
...will witness at Yale, and probably at other leading colleges, the prohibition of all inter-collegiate base-ball contests, as it is the general feeling among the various faculties that the sport is injurious to the proper work of the students. It is said that even Professor Richards, that stalwart friend of Yale sports, declared that the welfare of Yale demands the future abolition of the contests...
...lively combat between two stalwart waiters in Memorial caused quite a commotion at breakfast yesterday; after the shower of plates with which they opened the dispute had ceased from lack of ammunition, they grappled, and for some minutes, there was a picturesque fist fight till they were separated. Both were promptly discharged...