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...Field afforded. The field has been found to be wet and an attempt was made to drain it, not wholly with success. The plans now being carried out will remedy the trouble. As for malaria, Holmes Field is more likely to be malarial than Soldiers. It was once a swamp. But now there is no more risk of illness on Soldiers than on Holmes. The time for a new boat house is not far away. Then all the interests will be centered on Soldiers, and there will be no more attractive part of the University...
...Neath Cloudless Skies," by Fred C. Green; "A Sporting Vacation in Montana," by G. M. Dillard; "Moose Hunting in New Brunnswick," by the late E. P. Rogers; "Lenz's World Tour Awheel"; "Finnish Fish and Fishermen," by Fred. Whishaw; "Guns and Shooting," by Ed. W. Sandys; "The Great Dismal Swamp," by Alex. Hunter; "The New Hampshire National Guard," by George H. Moses; "Football," by Walter Camp, and the usual editorials, poems, records...
...Balleuse," by Carl H. Hovey '97, is a decidedly good study of the quick-passioned Creole type of Louisiana and carries with it the murky atmosphere of the land of the swamp and palmetto...
...which makes fashions and is not made by them. They opened their Homer, their Sophocles, their Tacitus, their Horace, where we take up our newspaper or our novel. What an old Gascon prig would Montaigne have been but for the ancients, especially Plutarch. Yet his library did not swamp him, and though his essays are pockmarked all over with quotations, his temper is essentially modern, indeed, he is the first of the properly modern writers. It is not as ladders to the languages in which they are written that I would commend these books, but the languages as ladders...
Geological Conference. Papers: Hematite Deposits near Pittsfield, Mass., Mr. J. Underhill; Inclined Topography, Mr. F. P. Gulliver; A Cane Swamp on Rumstick Neck, Narragansett Bay, Mr. J. B. Woodworth. Geological Laboratory...