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...reviewer has forgotten some of the first elements of criticism; namely, that a literary work should be regarded as a whole, and that it is unjust to criticise excerpts from a story without the slightest reference to the context, when by so doing he perverts the meaning and general effect of the passage in question. Now the critic takes exception to the hero's "quoting Homer in the death agony ond dying with Horace on his lips." In the abstract, if we merely consider that a man is about to perish in a volcano, this objection is perhaps a good...
Many appeals for money appear annually in our columns. Our readers may have become so accustomed to them that a new one will be without effect. There is, however, one cause for which we willingly ask support, and we hope our words will receive the attention due them. The reading-room still lacks funds with which to meet its actual expenses. This institution seems an exotic, but surely it should find at Harvard its native soil. It is suited to Harvard's needs, and could be made invaluable. These possibilities seem destined never to be realized. Appeal after appeal...
...close, Rev. Thomas Van Ness made some humorous remarks on the various characteristics of Harvard, ironically referring to those 'fresh water colleges' which did not enjoy the advantages of an old and heavily-endowed school. This brought out a bright reply from Judge Wilbur F. Stone, to the effect that most of the statesmen and men of affairs had come from interior colleges. Other speeches taking up the general line of thought that men equipped with a college education could wield great influence in the new West and establish here an ideal empire which combined all the best...
...feel when undergoing some great physical exertion. The heart is beating out of proportion to the respirations and the distress continues till the respiratory acts overtake the heart beats and the normal ratio becomes established. A man has then his second wind, as it is called. Digestion has an effect on respiration, the increase being most marked after the largest meal...
...latest move. Will not the radical reform which President Eliot has introduced force the standard of short work to be raised in a shorter time than a more conservative policy could. There can be no doubt that the requirements for entrance must be raised tremendously in order to effect any radical reform in the teaching given in our schools. There is much misapprehension relative to the average ages for entering a university in America and Germany. Many people seem to think that the average is much higher there than here, and that the matureness of the German students is rather...