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Before closing, I cannot refrain from noticing one or two points in my opponent's article. His analogy between college societies and masonic lodges, considered politically, is extremely pretty, but it will not bear examination. Harvard societies are confined to certain classes in our own college; and every member must be a class voter; while the masonic fraternity extends all over the civilized world, and embraces citizens and non-citizens of every country in Christendom...
...estimate of the few great men who were so unfortunate as to have preceded her. The whole preface is so thoroughly unsurpassed, so in keeping with the rest of the book, that it were a pity to select any one portion of it to point a review; but I cannot leave unnoticed the graceful way in which the editor, after flourishing the laurel crown of social science before the envious eyes of all past and present greatness, has finally deposited it on the head of modest Henry C. Carey. Not content with this even, the inimitable Kate pedestals her hero...
...Dean's afternoon receptions. The delightful little essay on Censure Marks becomes almost poetical in its phraseology, and but for a few slight trips in metre and a superfluous line we might be deceived into reading it as a sonnet. The directness and conciseness of the writing cannot be too much praised, though we could wish that the word shall might give way to the gentle "may" or to the potential and insinuating...
...shall have ascended to the height of twelve thousand feet above the sea; but it would seem difficult for the Boston club to form any valid test of the ability of candidates, as it is a sad fact that there is scarce a high hill in New England which cannot be safely ascended on a cloudy day and without guides...
...offer you some of this fruit defendu.' Iv she make one courtesy; ze snake he fill her whole parasol with appel; he say, 'Eritis sicut Deus. Mons. Adam he will eat ze appel, he will become like un Dieu, - know ze good and ze evil. But you, Madame Iv, cannot become more of a goddess than you are now!' And zis finish Madame Iv." - Wells-Coll. Chronicle...