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THAT was a very neat compliment that the last Advocate paid the Class of '80. As is usual in such cases, those who are the least known for "honest work" are proudest of the compliment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...students are earnestly requested to preserve the Tabular Views which the Faculty has so generously distributed free of charge, as none will be given out next fall. The cause of this new departure in economy is not known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

This matter is worthy of more than ordinary comment, because Omar is, by all odds, the most advanced thinker among Persian poets, and, though he was little known outside of his own country until about ten years ago, he is now occupying a position in the literary history of the world which a recognition of his merits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERSIAN POETRY. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...RUMOR is current that the "pocket athletes" - more generally known as Lawn-Tennis players - are to open a grand College Tournament. The event will doubtless make a great racket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

that it is a gift like any other, and cannot be expected in the mass of people. This objection, however, applies only to dramatic reading, or, at best, to what is known as "fine reading." Good reading, in the sense in which it is here used, means simply intelligent reading; and anybody who can understand a book can of course read it intelligently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTELLIGENT READING. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »