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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...other toasts were the usual ones, and were happily disposed of. The response to the closing one, "The Ladies," was beautifully done by Mr. J. M. Ward, who seemed to thoroughly appreciate his subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTITUTE OF 1770. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

...although just to a certain extent, is rather too broad to pass by unnoticed. In order that the course may not appear in an unpropitious light to those who intend to elect it next year, justice demands that some corrections be made in the article in question. The subject of the elective embraces the elements of "Physical Geography, Meteorology, and Structural Geology." That the desired specimens of "metals, fossils, and rocks" cannot be introduced in two of these divisions is self-evident. For instruction in Physical Geography a fine globe, maps, and other necessary means for instruction in the department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NATURAL HISTORY, 1." | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

...political economy. Without asking whether more ought not to be demanded, it is to be regretted this one is not better patronized. Probably there is nothing within its range which it is not incumbent on every educated citizen to know. Political science, it must be admitted, is a dry subject at first, and bristling with knotty problems for those who would go beneath the surface. But this does not in the least make against its importance or its claims...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO STUDENTS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

...Groton's oration was ably written and well delivered. In his modest and graceful exordium he alluded to the long-courted obscurity of the society, now laid aside for the first time after eight years of successful existence. He then passed to his subject, "Genius," in the treatment of which he showed equal facility of expression and freshness of thought. Many of the touches in the latter part evidenced the presence of the subject of his oration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUBLIC EXERCISES OF THE II H SOCIETY. | 6/2/1873 | See Source »

...gifts of thought and feeling which make the peculiar dignity, wealth, and happiness of human nature. Surely a high purpose, but one not incapable of being but partly understood or not understood at all; and thus culture comes to seem to many people the ability to talk on any subject readily and fluently enough for five minutes or perhaps a quarter of an hour, to know a little music, a little science, a little Greek, a little mathematics, and a little of fifty other things; that is, not to know them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUPERFICIAL KNOWLEDGE. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

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