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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...authors, Aristophanes is my favorite; his "Clouds," for instance. I think if I were to attend college for fifty years, and it were possible, I would annually elect this consummate work of Grecian literature. Its chastity of style, the spirit in which it was written, cannot fail to win the admiration of scholars through all time. Of the author's ability I am convinced; and since the concession of his humor is hereditary, I am obliged to acknowledge that, though I candidly believe that if the inhabitants of the moon - hypothetically speaking - were provided with an edition of Josh Billings...
There is one matter about which we are a little doubtful. Was that article on "Sobriety" written to rebuke the students for unbecoming mirthfulness? It certainly looks that way; but far be it from us to entertain such an idea for a moment. Could their mirthfulness be unbecoming...
...Study of Astronomy" is a nicely written rhapsody, indulging in such flights as these, "To his mind uninstructed in the mysteries of science, the starry firmament must have presented a great and wonderful scene. Its silence! its splendor! its immensity! its blue diamond-studded arch, resting upon the unseen and the unknown! Those wonderful lights! What are they? Whence do they come? Whither do they go?" The concluding article, "Perishable," is still more sermon-like than its companions, but is short...
...other is called "Every Man his own Thayer Club; or, How to Live Cheaply." It is written by a high-rank man, and evidently embodies the fruits of his own experiments. Its object is not only to show how to live cheaply, but also how to regulate the diet so as to economize time for studying. It is with this purpose that cracker and milk is made the staple article of food, while meat is restricted to Sundays. For, according to medical advice, studying should not begin after an ordinary meal for an hour; while with this diet digestion will...
...scathing criticism on an account of the Boating Convention in our last issue had for its object, no doubt, the utter annihilation of the Magenta. Still, we feel in duty bound to present No. 7 to our readers, and will here state that, though the article was necessarily written in great haste, our opinions in the main are still the same; and we regret that our space will not allow us to explain and answer this week. The Anvil's own sportive account of the Convention is scarcely free from a certain "one-sidedness" that it complains of in others...