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This policy, on business principles, is, no doubt, right enough. Whether it is just, we do not say. Practically it is making our market of the necessities of a poor man, and saying, "This is all we'll give. Take it, or leave it," - and he, thinking this half-loaf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COMMERCIAL POLICY. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

Professor: "Miss C., give an example of a true conclusion drawn from two false premises." Miss C. - "Logic is an easy study. That's false. I don't like easy studies. That's false. *** I don't like logic. That's true." - Vassar Miscellany.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWEET GIRL GRADUATES. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

BOSTON THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. "The Royal Middy," an adaptation of Genee's "Der Seekadet," is a bright piece very well acted and sung by the company which performed it with such success in New York. Miss Catherine Lewis is excellent as Fanchette, the gipsy girl who...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

YES, life is short. But it 's long enough to have some events crowded into it that don't impress even the casual observer as trivial. Such an event has just made its mark on the Fresh - no, Sophomore page of my life. I have taken the Second-Year Honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RATHER SURPRISING. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

Well, I'll tell you briefly what I did in my papers, and then you can judge for yourself whether I ought to be astonished or not. First came the Latin at sight. I had only read, in addition to the common authors, Ennius, Varro, Quintilian, Lucilius, Martial, Juvenal, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RATHER SURPRISING. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »