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...arranging a definite and satisfactory plan of studies for his college course. After having definitely solved, as he supposes, this Chinese puzzle, he happily pursues the even tenor of his way during his sophomore year. He feels perfectly satisfied and at ease concerning his future studies, when, lo! some bright - or rather, cloudy - morning, he awakes and finds a new Elective Pamphlet is born to injure his peace of mind by a change in the grouping of the courses...
...prospects of the Harvard Law School are decidedly bright. With a newly re-organized course of instruction, with an enlarged body of instructors and with a constantly increasing attendance of students from all parts of the country, and, finally, with the immediate prospect of new and commodious quarters, it need not be many years before our Law School becomes admittedly the foremost institution of its kind in the country. The sketch of the plans for the new building of the school, which we present today, has been carefully prepared for the HARVARD HERALD from the plans in the hands...
...warm, bright room with the crackling logs at one end and the bottle-beleagured sideboard at the other, with more glasses than crockery on the table, and friends not less than the Graces nor more than the Muses in number. What a picture. Who does not remember such an one? But still more bewitching is the picture of this same room a few hours later when the smoke is curling about overhead; tongues are loosened, faces tinged with a rosy flush, the flowers and fruit strewn about the table, and all "ennuies de convention" are forgotten and wine...
...Three bright-robed queens serene and bland...
...John Bright has written a preface to the English edition of the "Life of Frederick Douglass...