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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Houghton, Mifflin and Company have just brought out a new book by Margaret Deland, entitled "The Wisdom of Fools." It is a series of short sketches of the lan Maclaren type, dealing with life in a manufacturing town in the West. The one thing which makes itself almost painfully apparent throughout is the cynicism of the author. In a sarcastic manner she sneers at the existing social system, and in a covert way advances the ideas of socialism. Like much else that has been written, it treats the world as being all wrong, all employers being grinding oppressors...
James Clarke Davis '58, lawyer, Jamaica Plain; Lewis Stackpole Dabney '61, lawyer, Boston; William Hathaway Forbes '61, merchant, Milton; Norwood Penrose Hallowell '61, bank president, West Medford; Charles Follen Folsom '62, physician, Boston; John Elbridge Hudson '62, lawyer, Boston; Francis Lee Higginson '63, banker; George Glover Crocker '64, lawyer; Arthur Hunnewell '68, Wellesley; Joseph Bangs Warner '69, lawyer, Cambridge; Charles Joseph Bonaparte '71, lawyer, Baltimore; Walter Clifford '71, lawyer, New Bedford; William Henry Moody '76, lawyer, Haverhill; Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, lawyer, Boston; Arthur Astor Carey '79, Boston; George Angier Gordon '81, pastor of the Old South Congregational Church, Boston...
...College nine shut out the West Point Cadets at West Point Saturday. The weather was rainy and cold but in spite of the wet grounds and slippery ball, the Harvard team put up a sharp fielding game and batted better than usual. Gregory pitched a fine game. He allowed only two hits and gave only one base on balls. His support was nearly perfect. Sears, in left field, made several difficult catches...
...West Point, Cowan, at third, played the best game. Craig was batted out of the box and was replaced in the sixth inning by Mumma, who proved somewhat more effective...
Errors, Harvard 3, West Point 9. Hits, Harvard 17, West Point...