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...making long trips into the woods, to places where one is obliged to carry his own boat, the canvass canoe will be found to best answer the purpose, as it is ragged on a wooden frame which folds up into a small compass. They are usually square at the ends and are consequently slow sailors. Moreover, there is one serious objection to them, as the writer has learned from real experience, and it is this-a canvass canoe which weighs when new only twenty pounds will, after a month's knocking about, be found to greatly increase in weight. This...
...receive special care if any of the championship games are to be played upon it. Although the sign requesting all passers-by to take the east side of Holmes Field, may not convey any very exact information to strangers at Harvard who may be innocent of the points of compass, it is certainly exact enough for all students, and should be heeded by them...
...nations in improving our methods and enlarging and elevating our instruction. The Archaeological Institute has founded this school at Athens. We Americans need such a school even more than any other nation, for Germany, France and England are all within a few days' journey of Greece, and within the compass of a month's vacation. He considers that the one great need of the school is a permanent resident director at Athens, and that an endowment of $70,000 or $80,000 is necessary to obtain a man who will fitly represent us there. Professor Packard of Yale has succeeded...
This little book is already known to our readers as the successful essay for the Toppan prize in Political Economy. Owing to the great interest in political topics at the present time, the book will undoubtedly meet with a deserved success. Here, in small compass of sixty-nine pages, is presented an excellent account of an important subject. Mr. Taussig in his introductory chapter states the argument for protection to young industries in a few pages. "The argument is, in brief, that it may be advantageous to encourage by legislation a branch of industry which might be profitably carried...
...self-governed country; members of various smaller societies; heads or members of families. We have, moreover, to carve out recreation and enjoyment as the alternative and the reward of our professional toil. Now, the entire tone and character of this life outside the profession are profoundly dependent on the compass of our early studies. He that leaves the school for the shop at thirteen is on one platform. He that spends the years from thirteen to twenty in acquiring general knowledge is on a totally different platform; he is in the best sense an aristocrat. Those who begin work...