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...agree with the writer in pronouncing his proposed system feasible, and admit that it need not be attended with any but a trifling expense to competitors, if, as he asserts, philanthropists will be so ready to aid it with their thousands; but as to the advantages which would result from such an arrangement, we think the writer is over-enthusiastic, and perhaps a little inclined to indulge - we quote his own words - in "distorted and visionary imagination." For instance, does he feel quite sure about that generous rivalry to which he makes allusion? We regret to say that our remembrance...
...sought to aid my tongue-tied muse...
...hotter hell created by your aid...
...cable free. All others will be charged fair rates, and no discount. It would be a pity if the plan should fail for want of money. Any one can save five dollars' worth of shoes and doctor's bills in a winter by the aid of the cable. We are not definitely informed, but it is rumored that the projectors of this enterprise...
...conditions on which the use of the hall was granted were, that the Corporation should advance two hundred dollars to aid in starting the room, and that on the dissolution of the association all its property should revert to the college; and it seemed last spring as if this last condition was very likely to be fulfilled...