Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...well as disappointments. The drawers of the "double zero" are numerous, but refuse to consider themselves lucky. Candidates for the palatial Holworthy find their rooms in the attic of Grays, while some who were contented with the lowly upper rooms in Hollis expect to move up another story still and fix their habitation on the roof, and warm their chilled bodies around the comfortable chimneys...
...manner to put the impersonation on a par with his greatest achievements. Jacques Fauvel is not a senile dotard on the verge of the grave, but a hale and hearty old man, with every mental faculty intact and enlarged by years of experience, and with much bodily vigor still remaining. In every change of facial expression, in every motion of his body, Mr. Warren's acting was a thing for study and admiration. The clear insight of Jacques Fauvel into character and motives; his transcendent love for his great-grandchild, most effectively shown in the scene where he supposes...
...indebted to the Rev. Mr. Grafton, of the Church of the Advent, Boston, for this pamphlet. Although sermons do not form as large a part of college reading as might be desired, still the character of the two mentioned above may gain for them something of the attention which is usually bestowed upon literature of a lighter sort. The first is an able refutation of that unscientific theory - as it seems to many - advocated by Tyndall, which seeks to estimate the value of prayer by a test applicable only to human science, and which implies something very like omniscience...
THOUGH Winter has "lingered" for an unusually long time in the "lap of Spring," and Jupiter Pluvius still makes out-door plans uncertain, we are forcibly reminded that Spring has really come. The shop windows are placarded with "Spring Openings," several vernal poems have been offered for publication, and groups of Freshmen can be seen playing marbles and pitch-penny. But to us surer and more important signs are the small crowd with cricket and base-ball bats, that move toward Jarvis daily after dinner, and the smaller crowd that direct their steps toward the boat-houses just before supper...
...season, but the crew will probably consist of Dana (stroke), Goodwin, Morse, Low, Bacon, Devens (bow). The Junior crew is at present Silsbee (stroke), Wheeler, Good-rich, Harding, Burry, P. Dana (bow); and the Sophomore crew Hunnewell (stroke), Prince, Wet-more, Clark, Appleton, Hartwell (bow). The Freshman crew is still more uncertain; but as there are some ten good candidates for its seats, there is no danger that Captain Hodges will not present a good crew at the race...