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"A Study in Unhappiness" contains the discussion of student life begun recently under "Topics of the Day." It shows that even one who 'passes for a "brilliant" man' may not be thoroughly satisfied with his achievements. It is rather depressing in its tone, though it contains the charm of a...
The Yale Literary Magazine made its first appearance this year in its October number, and is remarkable for the high standard and general excellence of its pieces. Perhaps the most praiseworthy are "Count Tolstoi and My Confession," and a beautifully expressed poem, of much greater length than the average literary...
It is a curious thing that proud as is our boast of the advance of America beyond the old world in the solution of the public questions of the times and in practical affairs, we yet feel little humiliation that in the artistic and, to a certain extent, in the...
But all this is a confession of their failure to educate the people in a very important matter, and shows surely that they refuse to live level with their own times. It is quite as possible to teach oratory at Cambridge as it is to teach chemistry or mathematics, and...
"The remarks of Mr. Leverett Salton-stall at the last Harvard commencement on the growing extravagance of living at the college left a deep impression on those who listened to him. It would be a pity if nothing more should come of them than a general confession of their justness...