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Next year, men will be admitted to Eglish 12, if they have not obtained grade C in English...
...some difficult course they find a man who is their inferior in some other branch of work, far ahead of them in marks. The rule is impolitic, as it is a standing invitation to take only such courses as one feel he is reasonably sure of a good grade in. A man who has received high marks for two or three years hardly cares to court a D by taking a subject that he realizes he may get that mark on,- no matter though the course be both desirable and beneficial. The rule stands as a temptation to take snap...
...Rent is the difference between the productive power of any given lot of land and the worst piece of land that it pays to cultivate; and so profit is the difference between the net assets of any business firm and the surplus of an employer of the lowest possible grade obtained with the same amount of capital and goods. And this surplus must be due to the superior ability of the man himself, since in the same town with the same amount of capital one man will clear more in a year than another at the same trade. This then...
...Contes a Nanon," Guyde Maupassant's somewhat vile anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first novelist who could dissect a woman. Defoe tried to analyze a woman of the lower grade in Roxana, and Peregrine Pickle is such another monument of failure. But it was Balzac who first traversed this dark - or should I say fair - continent...
...Schleier of Constance, becoming convinced of the commercial necessity of a language to be spoken by all nations, invented Volapuk, the etymology of which is based on French, German and Latin. There is but one declension, one conjugation, no article, no grade; and all prepositions govern the accusative. The conjugation of verbs is somewhat elaborate, but it is without exceptions. Volapuk has already been adopted in various parts of Australia, Syria, Germany and America. In Paris it is taught in thirteen institutions, and there are five newspapers published in it. We are quite prepared to believe the statement of Volapuk...