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FOR a single writer to traverse the whole range of English literature without a stumble would be almost impossible. Mr. Taine, although on the whole wonderfully apt to be right, is acknowledged to have made some mistakes; and one of these mistakes is, I think, his estimation of Thackeray. It...
Nothing will more surely destroy the effect of a humorous story than ill-restrained laughter on the part of the narrator. If a writer would divest his article of all poignancy, he has only to show by his repetitions and redundant expressions that he is fully impressed with a conviction...
The crews of other colleges, if they should discover in this explanation of the prevailing style of rowing here any new points which it would be advantageous to know, can avail themselves of them.
Those who object to this custom of supporting a paper in college urge that what time is spent in writing the spicy article or in discussing college topics could better be spent over Greek plays or on the Merovingian dynasty. While no one can doubt the propriety of doing the...
Discover on earth, or far or near,