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...Works" last night. Mr. Pellew gave a hasty sketch of Miss Austen's life with comments on her novels. He devoted considerable space to the influence which shaped her style and to the relation she bore to the other novelists of her time. The essay was listened to with interest throughout...
...results. The young women are said to excel especially in languages and studies not requiring great breadth or depth of thought, while the men surpass them in heavier work involving original methods. As a rule the young ladies who are willing to spend what are usually considered the most interesting four years of life, at college, have too earnest a purpose in view to be easily turned aside from its accomplishment. Having no athletic interest to look after or other distractions of that nature, the young women apply themselves more closely to their studies. Again, living on the hill...
...been here four years, and the best proof of his success is the esteem in which he is held by all who have been under him. He is an able instructor and has had the advantage of experience, which is of great advantage in showing an instructor how to interest his classes. The petition which is now being circulated, asking that Dr. Laughlin be retained, is receiving a very large number of signatures, and it is certainly to be hoped that the corporation will in this case acquiesce in the decision of the students and offer to Dr. Laughlin sufficient...
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...should the agitation for this end cease. The same writer we have quoted also says very forcibly: "The great danger which besets our college students is not an undue fondness for open-air sports, but the direct reverse - a withdrawal from ordinary human life and a complete lack of interest in everything that goes on outside of his special sphere. In Cambridge they call this tendency "Harvard indifference;" but its influence is not confined to Harvard. If our educated men are to gain nothing from what is termed a liberal education save a narrow selfishness and lack of patriotism, enthusiasm...