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In such an event, perhaps the stigma of being silent is not so great, after all. Certainly there is not much of a fine art in doing what the veriest hod-carrier could do. Yet sometimes, while reading Addison, or Lamb, or Carlyle or Coleridge--or Holmes, there comes the...
However conscientious and able a student may be, he cannot be expected to do himself justice in an examination which covers three to four months of work, without a fairly thorough review of that work before he is subjected to the test. Yet this semester not a few students will...
The Arboretum, which is the property of the University, covers a large acreage in Jamaica Plain. It is devoted to experiment with trees and flowering shrubs; a large collection has been gathered from all parts of the world, for the purpose of determining which types are adapted to growth in...
Enclosed in these two volumes of Mr. Punch's history is as much of living and breathing England as could be packed between covers without exploding. Mr. raves has had the difficult problem of tolling in his own words, with frequent quotations and allusions, what the world was doing and...
As the author of the "Father Brown" detective tales recently pointed out with a good deal of cogency, the methods of deduction employed by the famous Holmes are more effective within the covers of a work of fiction than in actual life. The real detective, however shrewd a ratiocinator, rarely...