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...divided between Kant and Hegel. I cannot say that I enjoyed or even understood a word I read, but I felt that I was doing my duty, and so was happy. When evening came I was too tired to continue my reading, and, being afraid some friend would happen around and suggest a game of billiards or cards, I hurried away to make a call in town, thinking that I might be aided in my reform by the elevating influence of society. The conductor on the car passed me by in collecting the fares. Usually I could not be better...
...CURTIS'S journal is eminently what it pretends to be, - a simple account of what a man just from college noticed and experienced in a rapid tour around the world. The book is naturally valuable only to those who have never travelled; for the author kept steadily in the beaten track of tourists, and describes more his own impressions of what he saw, than the places and objects themselves. It makes, however, an interesting volume, written generally in a lively and entertaining style. The fault in the style seems to us the constant use of the present tense, which...
...torchlight procession, in which some of the students will participate by invitation of the Cambridge Ward One battalion, will take place on Thursday next. The line will be formed, if possible, on Temple Street, in Boston, at 7 o'clock, the members of each class rallying around the standard which bears its number. Horse-cars will be in readiness at half past six to convey the students to the place of formation. Torches will be delivered by the authorities of Ward One after 4 o'clock on the day of the parade. All students wishing to secure a place...
...Bible and novels there is a gulf fixed which few novel-readers are willing to pass"; and then he paints quite a vivid picture, which I think the fair Bostonian novel-reader would hardly recognize as herself: "A weary, distressed, bewildered voyager amid the billows of affliction, she looks around her in vain to find a pilot, a pole-star, or a shore...
...number and variety of the subscription lists passed around lately is truly appalling. Now it is drums, next the visit of the foot-ball team to Canada, then the boat-club, and so on, until we are forced to cry out with the poet, "How long, O Lord, how long!" Money is one of the necessary evils of this life, and it needs no argument to show that the various interests of the College cannot stand without subscriptions. For all that, the thing is not to be pushed to extremities; and it might be well for the promoters...