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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...delusion that their subscription will appear on the term bills. It is strange that last year we should have been able to keep up a larger number of periodicals than this, notwithstanding the large outlay in fitting up the room." It is the duty of the officers to look into this matter, and to devise some means for immediately remedying these faults...
...second look only was needed, to show...
Carlyle, for instance, draws us up to his philosophic height, and with him we learn to look down upon our fellow-men or upon our own natures. We may close the book and declare that Carlyle is the "Prince of Cynics," but we have felt and thought with him, and are inclined to acknowledge that he is right. The particular weakness he has exposed we regard with a scorn which has no mixture of pity. We may blame him for his quickness in discovering our vices and our failings, or for his slowness to appreciate our virtues; we may complain...
...college sending the winning candidate in any particular year is all right, and that the others are all wrong; but if the prize is taken for many successive years by the same college, or by several whose modes of instruction are similar, it will behoove the unsuccessful academies to look to the differences between themselves and the former, and see whether there be nothing to abolish in the one case or to copy in the other...
...freedom of criticism allowed here valuable, to the reader also such an exercise is beneficial. Even those who never write demand, as a consequence of their practice in this criticism, a higher style of excellence in books and magazines and papers. Not suddenly, of course, do they come to look upon what is mediocre with loathing; but because the process is slow it is none the less sure...