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...world where to enjoy these advantages the student has more pleasant and agreeable surroundings, customs and sports to brace and cheer him after becoming fatigued by hard mental labor. I say the above that all of your readers who chance to run through this article may, as they follow the description of Paris university life, imagine themselves for the time being over here taking a cursory retrospective view of their respective lives at Harvard. They will soon, I think, begin to notice how rich and full of warmth is the coloring of Harvard life as they picture it to themselves...
This poem is said to be unpublished. There is also a book published in Mexico in 1566 and the card states that the library contains no book printed in America before this. Perhaps the most interesting of Americana is the "earliest engraved map" which was supposed to follow the map made by Columbus, now lost. The date...
...There can hardly be a middle ground," the Post continues very sensibly, "for those to occupy who teach with any effect the principles of political economy. These principles lead somewhere, and it is the duty of the virile mind to follow them. They are taught as principles to be adjusted by the minds that receive them to the situations in which they may subsequently find themselves. Probably neither Prof. Perry, nor Prof. Sumner, nor Prof. Dunbar, would advocate such a revolution in our tariff system as the adoption of absolute free trade. But free trade is the only legitimate rationale...
...holding out a bauble, induces the inconstant youth to adopt a more rational and regular course of intellectual food, much as an indulgent mother persuades her darling boy to eat meat and forego pie by promising him a new rocking-horse. He may eat pie if he chooses and follow it up with a course of equally indigestable pastries, but in that case he will get no rocking-horse. The Harvard youth may, by forfeiting his claim on the Harvard bauble, which happens to be honors, utterly ruin his intellectual digestion, and yet receive his degree...
...Virginia" is to follow "Iolanthe" at the Bijou Theatre...