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...football, the second a sensible protest against the idea "that Harvard had lost like gentlemen long enough," the third in advocacy of debating. The verse of the number includes a rollicking description of "The Maverick," who is evidently a free lance of the West, a use of the Word new to me, but a happy one, whether common or the author's invention; "Sistiana," honest and ambitions lines after reading "The Romaunt of the Rose," and "Autumn Wind," in which are some good lines...
...Buehler graphically described the terrific charge of the Second Massachusetts Regulars, who rode to certain death without a word of protest. In this regiment 13 of the 16 officers killed during the war were Harvard men; their names are inscribed in the transept of Memorial Hall...
Born about 1858 in Minnesota, the home of the Sioux, Dr. Eastman spent the first fifteen years of his life with his native tribe, where he never heard a word of English, and was taught to hate and distrust the white men. Later he went to school and college. He attended Beloit and Knox Colleges and is a graduate of Dartmouth and of Boston University. For the last fifteen years he has been a physician, a missionary, and a writer, and is a speaker of wide experience. Among his books are "Indian Boyhood," and "Red Hunters and Animal People...
...doubtful. It tells its story so allusively that it must remain elusive for most readers. When, too, the end is reached, the real content of the story seems so slight that one wonders why one should try to penetrate the mist of allusion thrown around it. "Sketchy" is the word that comes inevitably to mind as one reads these stories, even though there be in them good characterization and some telling phrase. Good touches like this in "A Committee of Three" are frequent. The writer says of a three cornered conversation: "Two is company, but three is a difficult peculiarity...
...Westmorly--124; Grays--28; Craigie and Waverley--Craigie 107; Perkins and Conant--Perkins Living Room; Thayer--25; Russell--20; Stoughton, Hollis and Holworthy--Hollis 17; Dunster, Dana, and Drayton--Dunster 24; Claverly--28; Mt. Auburn street--Ridgely Annex; Hampden, Beck, and Fairfax--Hampden 20. Other crews should leave word with J. Richards '07, Matthews 33, today...