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...choleric blood is bluishly affected," or relate the touching apostrophe to "Ontario not as yet loosened from the embrace of her frozen foe," but we ought to say that "Richard and his horse" is made to do good service. A tolling bell suggests that the "patriot has died." We cannot advise any one to seek light reading in the Index...
...then cover it with hot coals; when the black crust is scraped off, you will find some light and very palatable bread. For the first season, of course, the expenses are large in proportion to the number of fish caught, and for a single summer this plan cannot be recommended, except as an experience for one who can afford to pay. The first season is necessarily an initiation and in succeeding years the sport increases, while experience enables one to dispense with some of the guides, and to reduce all the expenses...
...extremely impolitic, and of necessity utterly unproductive of any result. If the refractory classes had intended to destroy all chance of their wishes being acceded to, they could not have contrived a more sure method than the extreme course which they have taken. The Faculty, after what has happened, cannot recede an inch consistently with the dignity of their position, and have absolutely no choice but to assert their authority. Even were it possible, would it be advisable to entirely suppress the military portion of the College curriculum? In this country the principle of trusting to chance is carried...
...statesmanlike measure for the government to provide for Elementary Military Education at the universities? The duties in this department need not be arduous, nor take up more than their due proportion of time, but let every well-educated man have a little knowledge of this sort, for he cannot tell how soon he may be called upon to use it. Let not the next sudden emergency find us in the condition we were in when the Rebellion broke out, when, to quote the language of one of our leading journals, "a drill-sergeant was a man of distinction." Not that...
...informs us that when the South ask for aid or sympathy from the North they receive "the cold shoulder." One cannot but admire the spirit which leads him to deal in the appetizing metaphor of "the cold shoulder" rather than in the "dry bones" of the ancient Jeremiah. It is impossible to surmise how much is implied by that exceedingly dubious expression, "the cold shoulder"; but the meaning cannot be extended so far as to include the Northern capital, which is the life of the South at the present time. The writer, if he is interested in facts, will also...