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...readings for Freshmen tomorrow night at 9 o'clock in the Dining Room of the Union. The doors will be closed and locked at that hour so that it will be necessary for men who intend to be present to arrive promptly. Professor Copeland will read selections from Thackeray, Kipling, O. Henry, and Leacock. Although the reading is intended primarily for Freshmen, who will be admitted whether they are members of the Union or not, members of the Union may attend after the Freshmen have been seated...
Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will give his first reading of the year for Freshmen in the Dining Room of the Union on Tuesday evening, November 29, at 9 o'clock. He will read selections from the works of Thackeray, Kipling, O. Henry, and Leacock. The reading will be primarily for Freshmen, whether members of the Union or not, but all members of the Union may attend the reading after the Freshmen have been seated. The doors will be closed and locked sharply at 9 o'clock, so that men should be prompt in arriving...
...Widener Room has on exhibition at present a rather unusual collection of rare items connected with Dickens, Stevenson and Kipling. In the Dickens' case there are manuscripts of his parody on the "Elegy in a Country Church yard", (unpublished); autograph letters between Dickens and Thackeray; and three presentation copies of the Pickwick Papers...
...find this to be true. It is for this reason that Shakespeare's plays are still read and his characters still widely known, while the works of almost all of his contemporaries have long ago been forgotten. It is for this reason that Goldsmith has outlasted Johnson, and that Thackeray's work will be famous when present day writers are out of print...
...nothing about it) for being snobbish, and within its exclusive gates men call other men snobs. Irascible X accuses immaculate Y of being a snob and then snubs provincial Z who comes from another and smaller college. He is unduly gratified when Z in turn calls him a snob. Thackeray has made a special study of University snobs and speaks suavely of the whole order; those who "pride themselves in giving recherche little French dinners," the "dressy Snobs," the "sporting Snobs," the "philosophical Snobs, who are statesmen at the sporting-clubs," and many others. The rock-of-ages verdict, then...