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...question. Dr. A. Potter, in his able book on Reading, says: "It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read." Not better than the books they read? Great Heavens! Do you not tremble for our instructors? Are they to descend at last to the level of the blue book? Are they to be no better than that "wretched heap and hotch-potch of words and ideas"? Alas! what a horrible destiny! But ought they not to be rescued? Ought not the system to be abolished, and our instructors saved? A few more years...
...Manila rope. The weights are placed in a stout wooden box, which is guided in its rise and fall by steel rods. When not in use this box rests on a rubber pad preventing the disagreeable jerk and jar which invariably ensued when the weight was allowed to descend a little too far. The weights can be put in or removed from this box at the pleasure of the one using it. This renders it possible for any man to use any of the machines, and again effectually stop monopoly. The boxes for clothing are roomy and fastened by padlocks...
...Memorial Hall as a Match-box." But the wonder is that no one writes "A Dream in Sanders Theatre," or "A Midnight Adventure in the Tower." These suggestions are offered for what they are worth; the writer's only hope is that contributors to College papers will not descend to the barbarism of writing "Memorial...
...such a proposal from being acceptable, that some delegates came to the late convention wishing even for four-oars. Yet, since Harvard began the Association, she must now forego her wishes; and although of enormous resources compared with some of her fellow colleges, she must descend to their level, and acquiesce in the desires of a college of a hundred and fifty men all told. And this objection is not removed by saying that some of these Liliputians have beaten the monster, and, therefore, Harvard must consider their needs. There are but thirty...
...hear a voice come from out of the dust, saying, "I'll be through directly, sir," and she generally was. She succeeded admirably in removing the dust from the carpet and lodging it on the pictures and furniture, from which at the next dusting a large portion would descend to the carpet again...