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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...
...held his peace in regard to our extraordinary sounds. Accordingly, in his "History of German Religion and Philosophy" we find a very witty illustration which is quite to the point. He gives an account of a man fabricated by an English mechanician. This manufactured man did credit to the author of his being, lacking only a soul, A sort of feeling the creature had in its leathern breast; and this feeling, Heine maliciously observes, was not essentially different from the ordinary feelings of an Englishman. It could even communicate its sensations in articulate sounds, and the very rattle...
...privates and publics would be done away with. That the rule against smoking in the yard had been set aside, was considered the first step in this direction. For some time, also, no one had received any deductions for snowballing. But alas for our expectations! Within a week, the author of the article in which that system of penalties was proved inefficient, in which, too, the Faculty were praised for their moderation and sympathy with the students, himself received a private. It is indeed a censurable act for any one to call a man in the third story...
...Magenta does feel "immensely honored" by the favorable opinion of the Vassar Miscellany. Three months we have been waiting to read their comments; many times we have repented permitting any one to criticise their taste or their wisdom. But the editors are forgiving; they return good for evil. The author of "Literary Ruskinism" will be pleased to learn that his article was especially praised; but he may not be inclined to adopt their advice, and drop Greek at the end of this year. This number of the Miscellany in some respects is not so brilliant as the preceding, but there...
...Madisonensis contains one of those crude articles on Education and Common Sense, a kind with which the college press is much burdened. Two columns are devoted to a wholesale condemnation of the hard student. The author labors under the impression that well-trained, well-educated men are not wanted, and he amuses himself by applying to them such adjectives as fossilized and unconditional. Further, he evidently has recently attended Van Amburgh's Circus, for he favors us with a long discussion of Hannibal's tricks. To compare Hannibal with "rank" men is certainly original; but to apologize for Hannibal...