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...Annex has, as yet, few pretentions to architectural beauty. An old-fashioned private house on the Appian Way supplies four front rooms, which constitute all that is outward and visible of the institution. One of these rooms is fitted up as a library and sitting-room. Low book-cases contain the modest collection of books. There are besides two recitation rooms, which Mr. Howells might call 'sincerely bare,' but which are amply comfortable for their purposes. In the sunny parlor, with its home-like belongings, had gathered Professor Hill's Rhetoric class. A half dozen young ladies sat about informally...
Much unnecessary trouble will be saved if those men who have exercise cards will not also insist upon having a book made out for their use. We would strongly advise those who have neither book nor card as yet to choose the book which contains full directions, not only with regard to exercise, but also as to manner of living, etc. The price of the book is merely nominal (25 cents), and is extremely valuable...
Lost - Red leather pocket-book, containing some papers and letters. Finder will confer a favor and be rewarded upon returning same to the address found on the letters...
...young ladies at Vassar consider "Guerndale" to be characterized by "labored dullness," but with "John Inglesant" they are charmed, and one of them, through ten pages of the Vassar Miscellany, indulges in an acute psychological analysis of the book-an analysis, by the way, that is exceedingly well done. If one were to judge from the Miscellany one must conclude that the tone of thought at Vassar is predominatingly literary and philosophical. As an exponent of this turn of mind the Miscellany is very successful and might furnish an interesting subject of study for one curious to mark the stage...
...recent visitor to Williams College thus describes a recitation as conducted by the venerable Professor Mark Hopkins: "The class was one which had made a speciality of the study of the professor's book, entitled 'Outlines of the Study of Man.' The professor's method was as follows: He called one of the students by name and asked him what had been done at the recitation on the previous day. The student immediately rose and gave an interesting synopsis of the preceding lesson, and connected it with the present lesson, with the same spirit that he might have displayed...