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...Lampoon which is to appear tomorrow is hardly up to the standard, certainly not as good as last week's issue Spring, the Junior dinner and the vacation are treated in a rather happy vein editorially. The centre picture, "Harvard after dark," by A. K. Moe '97, is a very creditable bit of work in a somewhat different vein from the general run of Lampoon illustrations. The "Constitution of the Guff Club," and "A Hunting Song," the latter presented as an extract from "Ralegh in Guiana," are both clever hits and funny, a statement that cannot truthfully be made...
Moliere, said he, was in the XVIIth century to France what Shakespeare was to England and Cervantes to Spain. Above all a Frenchman and a Parisian, a bourgeois of Paris, we continually find this vein running through all his work. Like so many other great writers he was a bourgeois, his father being "tapisseir du roi." His parents, being ambitious for their son, sent him to the College of Clermont; but he disappointed their hopes, and at the age of twenty-one took to the stage-a profession at this time of extreme ill repute. Alone in the world...
...magazine continues in the historical vein with a reprint of the address delivered last year before the Memorial Society by Hon. Moorfield Storey, on "Harvard in the Sixties." Those who heard his excellent address will be glad to see it in print; and those who did not will find profit in its reading...
...have received a memoir of Dr. Andrew Preston Peabody, prepared for the Massachusetts Historical Society by Edward J. Young (University Press). It is written in a charming personal vein which must appeal to all those who had the privilege of knowing Dr. Peabody and others who, less fortunate in not having had that privilege, still revere his memory...
...last of the series of lectures under the auspices of the Memorial Society was delivered in Sanders Theatre last evening by Judge Robert Grant '73. Judge Grant spoke in a pleasantly reminiscent vein of the period between 1870 and 1880. He characterized the entire period as a time of "breaking ground" all over the country. We, many of us, said the speaker, envied the lot of those to whose memory Memorial Hall was erected in 1870. We felt that the time of greatness was past...