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...pick and choose. The accommodations, however, for those desiring to pursue special courses, or to pursue the regular one in a special manner, are unsurpassed. The degrees of Bachelor of Philosophy and Bachelor of Arts are conferred by the university to the graduates of this college, no honorary degrees ever being given...
Only one Indian ever graduated at Harvard, his name was Caleb Cheeshateamuck, class...
...college authorities, but the next fall when the students returned they beheld a new brick sidewalk running around most of the quadrangles. No one will say that the efforts of the paper were useless in this case. This winter it seems as if the walks were worse than ever; but in reality the same state of inefficiency has existed ever since they were made. It is only because it is now the season when this nuisance is most annoying; we are constantly thinking of present things and wonder how we ever endured them before. The gravel walks are so poorly...
...masterpiece, and which only began to be appreciated after his death, and the earlier numbers of "Vanity Fair" excited little attention. In the last years of his life Thackeray told a friend of mine that he had never made as much as L5000 by any book he had ever written...
...cannot but wish for more from the same hand, as the number of writers who are capable of writing a respectable short story is growing beautifully smaller every day. "The story in the February Century," the Critic says, "is one of the shortest short-stories the magazine has ever published, and one of the best. It is at once manly and tender; it bas heart as well as ingenuity...