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...dealt with to the full extent of the law"; but its severity is tempered with the milk of human kindness, as we see by the remark that, "should the suspected party choose to make full restitution and explain his conduct to the officers of the reading-room, he will avoid further exposure, and the chastisement incident upon it." What a comfort it must be to suspect somebody...
...were an excellent test of the thoroughness of the review. There were, however, objections against binding up examination-papers with the Catalogue, for this increased the size and price of the book, and compelled each purchaser to buy much that he did not care for. It is proposed to avoid these objections, and yet furnish the papers to students by publishing little pamphlets, each of which will contain a set of papers upon one subject. Students can then buy only the papers they wish, and can have them in a much handier form than before. This method is followed...
...fantastically distorted by the peculiar quality of glass used at Harvard as irresistibly to distract the attention of our imaginative and speculative mind. As the preservation of our eyesight ought to be one of the chief objects attended to, we hope that the architects will devise some way to avoid the existing evils...
...that we are an example of the kind of independence he opposes. This we fully understand; but we beg to decline to meet him on his own ground of personalities. He says, further, that we twisted his words from their meaning and misconceived his aim. This we endeavored to avoid, and we believe, as regards the general spirit of his remarks, with success. Those errors which we may have committed were generally due to the obscurity of his meaning. None of them vitiated our defence of true independence. For example, our error in quoting "Ossip" as calling not merely...
...under stronger incentive than one goes in, and this additional danger from those deadly doors is enough to discourage all attendance within the portals of University. The College might, at a trifling expense, put glass into the doors, and thus give a man at least a chance to avoid being knocked down before he enters the recitation-room. Another danger which awaits the unfortunate who must enter University descends from above. We refer to the masses of ice and snow which, in ordinary winters, drop from the roof on to the steps, - masses heavy enough to crush the skulls...