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...great many consider a mouthful of veal hardly preferable to a dose of castor-oil. When the dinner, then, is composed of one of these meats, they have but two alternatives, - to eat what is set before them, or go hungry. We see no reason why we cannot have two kinds of meat as well as one, for our meat is purchased in such large quantities that the difference in expense, if any, would be very slight, and the advantage of having every one suited would very probably be gained...
...actions of the politicians of the moment, which can be easily obtained by paying a decent amount of attention to the columns of a daily paper; it is a familiarity with the fundamental principles of political economy, and, above all, with the Constitution of the United States. Every citizen cannot be expected to be a profound statesman, but every citizen can be, and is expected to be, able to understand something of the theory of the government under which he lives, and to give a rational account of the principles for which he casts his vote. The powers that...
Here at Harvard we have one course (Nat. Hist. 3), which relates in some degree to the construction of the human body; but the word "Comparative" in connection with the "Anatomy" proves a bugbear to many who would like to know something of their own frames, but cannot spare time to investigate the nature of the twenty-nine vertebrae in the tail of the Archeopteryx, or the peculiar structure of the tooth of the Labyrinthodon...
...mention casually to a man writing for dear life with a long paper, a limited time, and an aching and possibly slightly muddled head, that "you were conditioned in - ," results, in nine cases out of ten, in upsetting him and spoiling his work. Men are not mere machines, and cannot be stopped momentarily and told of failure, and then expected to go right to work again and do just as well...
That really he cannot remain...