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Wm. Everett of Adams Academy says of John Fiske, the eminent expounder of Herbert Spenser (according to the Detroit Every Saturday), that while in college he once wrote an article on Mr. Spenser's theories, which, being sent to England, drew forth from the philosopher a very flattering letter of...
"I don't like enthusiastic thermometers," remarked a certain eminent professor lately, discussing the noticeable variations among those instruments.
The university is helped by the success of its graduates in their respective callings. Some years ago an eminent lawyer from the West, not himself a college-bred man, and having no affiliations with Harvard, placed his son in the university. When I asked him why he had selected Harvard...
Henry Adrien, the eminent French antiquarian, is dead.
AT some risk of enlarging on a subject which may, by the time this paper appears, have become rather a trite one, we propose to say something of the Junior Class. When the year began it was the fashion to condemn '82 in almost every way and in almost every...