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...disagreeable; now, although a mere augmentative theme will not pass for a forensic, as has hitherto been the case, forensic writing in most profitable, and, if not put off until the last minute, agreeable. Dr. Royce has taken a personal interest in every student's work by setting apart certain hours when he can be consulted. It is this contact with professors which so stimulates students in their work. Is not this the reason why such men as Professors Cooke, Palmer, Shaler, and White, and others whom we could mention, are so eminently successful as instructors...
...least a personal attack on the gentleman mentioned; the editors of the Advocate neither knew, nor, may it be added with all due respect, did they care, so far as criticizing the sparring went, who or what the gentleman was. The criticism was directed simply and solely against a certain style of sparring, which now, as always, the Advocate has opposed and condemned...
Whereas, a communication has been received by each member of this board to the effect that the academic faculty will hereafter communicate certain votes to the members of this board...
...expresses most unreservedly his ideas on people, on women, on love, on himself-indeed, on everything on which he had ideas. Boswell is one of those people we never think of blaming. He seems as incapable of wrong-doing as a child, and even while we feel a certain and even while we feel a certain sense of annoyance with him, at times, still we cannot condemn him. There is something charming in his folly. But the most striking feature of these letters, I think, lies in the accounts of his love-affairs. And since these accounts seem...
Passing over several such episodes, we come to the real love-affair of his life,-that with a certain Miss Blair. He was in love with her for several years, and she with him, yet when one wanted to marry, the other didn't, so nothing came of it. The beginning of this courtship was most romantic. "She was so good," he says, "as to prevail with her mother to come to Auchinleck, where they stayed four days; and in our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity." I fear that although his courting was carried on in such...