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...leading dailies that well repay careful reading, and preservation. At present these articles are buried in the ponderous, rarely opened volumes in the basement of the library. By the plan under consideration, all that is valuable in American and foreign papers can be collected, placed in a compact form, and properly indexed. All must realize the value of Poole's Index. The plan of "M" would in the end prove a still more valuable aid to many students in their daily work. To those who are doing original work in historical courses, and taking prominent parts in debating societies, this...
...rigidity to flexibility ? The time comes in a democracy when the people are completely masters, and do not value restrictions. The tendency to rigidity will therefore stop, and a larger authority be given the executive. A rigid constitution is an absolute necessity in a federation ; but a semi-international compact of England and her colonies had better be effected by a British Statute. The benefits of a flexible constitution, a more developed common law, temperate habits of compromise, etc., are shared only by the small ruling class ; thus the new voters in England, though teachable, will be ignorant. What...
...spirits, and the curves which some of them described would have baffled the most ingenious mathematician. At Bowdom square we disbanded, and the two upper classes rushed for the cars, but '87 and '88 kept on their march, the former leading in unregular lines, the latter following in a compact body. We cross the bridge, and near the scene of many a hard fought battle. '88 forms her lines more clumsily still; she is preparing for a rush. But where is '87? Her men extend in a long straggling line for a long mile ahead. What is the matter...
...matched, for, although there were twenty-eight freshwomen and twenty-four sophomores, the aggregate weight of the latter was largely in excess of that of their competitors. The freshwoman who wore the back hair for which the battle was to be fought, was placed in the centre of a compact mass of her classmates, who were resolved to defend her at all hazards. The sophomores, confident of an easy victory, had made few preparations for the contest, except that of putting on their oldest clothes, and they were guilty of the extreme folly of wearing their own back hair...
Colby University has lately been the recipient of two fine pieces of sculpture. One is the original model of the Roger Williams statue, and the other is the model of "The Signing of the Compact," which stands at present at Plymouth...