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...Puck on Wheels" is announced as a "comic book for summer reading." It will probably contain the poems and cartoons which have appeared in Puck from time to time on the bicycle. It will be issued about the first of July...
...Rollo's Journey" is too well known to need comment at this time. Its many readers who laughed over Rollo's adventures as they appeared in the Harvard Lampoon will be glad to see them republished in book form. Mr. Attwood's illustrations are, perhaps, the best feature of the little parody...
...preacher is thoroughly disgraceful and contemptible. Dr. Miner himself also alleged that Dr. Peabody had advised young men to drink moderately rather than not drink at all. This the latter pronounces "an absolute and an unqualified falsehood. The only possible ground or pretence for it is that in a book of mine, in treating collectively of all forms of luxury, indulgence, recreation, and amusement, I say of them collectively that 'temperance is evidently fitting, and therefore a duty,' and that it is 'better than abstinence, unless there be specific reasons for abstinence.' " An attempt to wrest language as clear...
...piece for us to break our heads against. I searched diligently through the paper, but came to the conclusion that all the extracts were equally well adapted for that praiseworthy purpose. Despairing of understanding anything in their paper, I resolved that the examiners should understand nothing in my book. So, being acquainted with Choctaw (a language which closely resembles, yet is totally different from Greek), I wrote in this tongue stories of Indian mythology which I thought might be parallel to the Greek myths. When the examination was over, I walked out feeling that, whatever the examiners might say, they...
...should like to suggest a change in the library regulations about taking out books. I believe it would be better in many ways to have books taken from the library in term time kept not for a month as now, but for two weeks. During the last two years the use of the library has increased very much; and as there are comparatively few second copies, we often find it extremely difficult to get a book which we want without waiting a long time for it. Probably few books taken from the library cannot easily be read in two weeks...