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...know-I-that is-should like-charmed-never so long-long time (I really beg pardon)-again-" Tom floundered helplessly and stopped, panting, the apology being addressed to an ubiquitous mucker, who had grabbed the bouquet falling from Tom's nerveless hand, and run off, yelling savagely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW WE WENT TO EUROPE. | 6/19/1874 | See Source »

...with experimental practice in the analysis of liquids and solids. Mineralogy is also a laboratory course of blow-pipe analysis; it requires a good memory and some experience in drawing crystals and geometrical figures. In it a good memory is sure of success. Quantitative analysis is for the steady hand and patient brain. It teaches and requires delicacy of manipulation; is concerned with the measuring by weight of the compounds studied. It requires and trains the hand and eye to great nicety, and is of some service to the physician, as well as both of the two laboratory courses above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

...books one at a time as we want to read them, aside from the pleasure it gives, is a matter to be considered by those who desire to save expense, since valuable and rare books can often be purchased for a comparative trifle at the nooks of second-hand booksellers. Old Cornhill will still yield many a harvest, yellow with age, to one who gleans closely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRIVATE LIBRARIES. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

...which side he belonged. Indeed, in the last half-hour, one of the Harvard players had excited the spectators to the utmost with the hope that he was about to gain a long-wished-for "touch-down," when one of his pursuers bethought himself of stretching out his hand and seizing one of the many pennons that were waving behind him, with which he drew him skilfully to the ground, awakening in him the same sensation that a kite has when pulled to the ground by a little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FOOT-BALL MATCH. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

...wintry storms, with nature's matchless hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THREE CROSSES. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »