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...different schools of the university are then in turn mentioned, and all seems to be in a flourishing condition, except the Dental School. Particular attention is called to this department. After a struggle of fifteen years it possesses no property except a few chairs, and a fund of $955 in the treasury; and yet it has earned an European reputation, and attracts more students from abroad than any other department of the university. Its claims for a better support by the public in the matter of endowments are referred to. The dining association may now be considered...
...came he would invite us to his room to see the dancing on the green, which always took place in front of his windows. It was a funny room, and served him as kitchen, parlor, study and bedroom, all at once. He did not use the small bedrooms except as storehouses for his books and manuscripts. The furniture of the large room was simple in the extreme. Near the small stove was a plain table and two chairs. In one corner, arranged on his large handkerchief spread on the floor, was his clean linen, in another was his small iron...
...books from the library when they have no right to remove them. This cannot be condemned in too strong terms. It is most unworthy of any student to deliberately take away a book that he knows others are in need of, and which he is bound not to take except on certain conditions and for a very limited time, after having had it checked to him at the desk. A much harsher name might be applied to such an offense with a great deal of justice. This reserving so few copies of a book for the use of a large...
...style here has to be completely changed in matches between good players. Against poor or even medium players, the near-net game is apt to pay very well, but against first-class exponents of the game it is simple suicide. Each player should stand on the service line (excepting the server, of course, and he gets up as soon as possible) and if they are up to the mark nothing except a smash will get past them. This is always done in England, and even allowing for the difference in 'calibre' of the players, the superiority of the English style...
...present day, could hardly be surpassed, and he had much rare and profound erudition on points on which most Western scholars are ignorant. But he was, on the other hand, little acquainted with modern German scholarship; and the works of the great masters of classic philology in Germany, except so far as they were written in Latin or translated into English, were almost unknown to him, as he never learned German so as to read it with any facility. But much which others learned with toil seemed to come to him by intuition, and many things in his books which...