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...superior to bourgeois, but De Quincey might well be pardoned for denying the name of gentleman to a man who cut the leaves of a book, in the author's presence, with a table-knife covered with butter. This indeed is a trifle, and for the perfection of the English bourgeois-artiste character we must go to Dr. Johnson. There is a good deal, after all, to be said in excuse of the first gentleman of his time letting him wait in the anteroom among the lackeys; for except in his learning and moral character, he was little better than...
...rational temperance, not altogether due to the (so-called) "Temperance Party," has been adopted by almost all. It seems, then, like a repetition of the old mistake to hold up teetotalism as the highest virtue, and, in regard to our own College, Why, we ask again, should the almost English system of our Commons be defaced by so superannuated an Americanism as the enforcement (to the extent of the Faculty's power) of total abstinence? Our climate may not make ale or cider necessary for all, but illness certainly makes it helpful to some, and a friend of ours...
Third. In the classics the examination to be based upon one Greek play, to be announced as soon as possible by the examiners; and in addition that the contestants he required to translate at sight some Greek author into English and from an English author into Greek...
...called upon to write is scarcely better off than the one who "cuts," for the former is to all intents and purposes absent. If the course is history, and the family name of some nobleman is given which without doubt is very necessary to a clear understanding of English politics, he is too absorbed in his writing to hear it, and thus that important fact is lost...
...order to obtain the best designs for the subjects which have been selected by them, they have, for purposes of competition, sent, through their architects, to several firms, both English and American, a diagram of one of the windows, showing the dimensions of the figures and ornamentation, and containing such restrictions and limitations as have been considered necessary for the general harmony of the stained glass in the Hall; a circular giving the subjects for the window, and the authorities from whence their costumes, etc. may be taken; and also several points relating to the building...