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...have won." The Sun that visits Cornell daily is disposed to be a little obscured by clouds, we fear; and the Era does not continue in brotherly love . . . It is a pleasure to praise the Exonian, one of the most modest of all our exchanges, and one of the best. It is published weekly by the Exeter Academy, and we may be pardoned for preferring it over many more pretentious sheets hailing from a "University...
...Cobden Club of England offer a silver medal, under the auspices of the Harvard Finance Club, to any present undergraduate of Harvard College for the best essay on some economic subject...
...deficient in value and interest? Is the ability to write - not Greek, but English - of so little importance? Students of Saxon and Old English meet with scant encouragement. Honorable Mention is a meagre reward for faithful work in seven English courses. It is but a vague term, at best; and certainly the addition, English, does not suggest any knowledge, however limited, of Anglo-Saxon. If Graduate Course 7, and possibly 8 or 9, could be added to the list, and another course in Literature given, there might be some satisfaction in studying English as thoroughly as any other language, with...
...facts which several writers had alleged against the "observation train," and the fallacy of the conclusions based upon them, I asserted concerning the arrangements actually used in running the train, that "no one of the managers has yet seen any reason to doubt that this is the best possible plan, or to hesitate about adhering to it hereafter." My final remarks were as follows...
...best is a vagabond stupid...