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...vested with certain powers with regard to the leasing and assignment of rooms; and of late he has been the person to whom application was to be made for the use of the halls for lectures, concerts, &c. But it is to be observed that Memorial Hall, for whose permanent use the Dining Association obtained a regular agreement, was not included under his charge. Now what conceivable official connection can there be between the Bursar and the Board of Directors of the Dining Association, that would bring them under his sway? The Dining Association does not pay rent...
...Shakspere Society will not suffer very severely under so ill-considered an attack. Granted that its members may have made mistakes; granted that Mr. Furnivall's attack upon Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps was unjust as the Advocate's own attack upon the Society; granted that Mr. Aldis Wright, whose ability we are not disposed to question, considers Mr. Hudson (whom we certainly did not confound with Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps) a critic whose opinion is worth hearing (a marvellous circumstance, surely, since the latter confines himself almost entirely to the "sign-post criticism" which the former deprecates); granted that Professor Child...
...revolver and point it at some invisible mark. I tried to shriek for help; I tried to move. I might as well have been a statue. Then I saw the revolver snatched from him by a hand; I saw a face, distinct and clear as his own - a face whose every line is deeply imprinted on my memory; I saw that face light up with a smile of exultation, and that hand pressed on the trigger; I saw Stephen fall heavily - dead! But the revolver made no noise...
...society that numbers among its members Professors Furnivall and Dowden and our own Professor Child may be "a very erratic kite," but it is pardonable. perhaps, to think otherwise. It might be well for the Advocate to leave denunciation of that society in the hands of Mr. Swinburne, whose foulmouthed Billingsgate particularly fits him for the task. But it is not necessary that we should undertake its defence. The inoffensive item in the Crimson, that has unfortunately aroused our cotemporary's editorial wrath, was only meant to suggest that a club formed at Harvard would do well...
...solemn hemlocks rose, whose misty gloom