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...CATHEDRAL TOWNS OF ENGLAND, IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. By Thomas W. Silloway and Lee L. Powers. Boston: A. Williams & Co." This book is a pleasant account of a journey through England, Ireland and Scotland, which has grown out of a series of articles published in one of the Boston papers. The introductory notice sufficiently explains the plan of the book: "Instead of simply recording personal observations, the labor was extended by the incorporation of historic and biographical facts, the authors hoping that, while their work would be valuable and interesting as a compend to those familiar with the facts, it would...
...allowing things to continue as at present is obvious. A swarm of impertinent small boys daily infests Holmes' field, and besieges any one wishing to play with their importunate cries as long as he is on the ground. This has always been a source of annoyance, and has now grown to be a nuisance which ought to be stopped...
Smith College has grown so rapidly during the past year that two new dormitories are necessitated...
...independent, self-reliant spirit which has grown up at Harvard, partly as a result of the liberal policy by which the government of the university has intrusted to the students the regulation of their own conduct, is less heard of than its rival, "Harvard indifference," but it exists for all that. When men are treated like men instead of like children they begin to feel and act like men. The two great students' organizations, the Harvard Dining Association and the Harvard Co-operative Society, are evidences that the Harvard undergraduate is pretty well able to take care of himself...
...know the price of a "dissection cat," it may be stated that Prof. Burt G. Wilder, now lecturing at Bowdoin College, advertises that he wishes to obtain "cats, and occasionally kittens," for dissection or experiment, and that twenty cents will be paid for a full-grown cat. The cats, he explains, are killed with chloroform, or while under its influence, and never suffer any pain, making this a merciful way of disposing of superfluous animals...