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...second issue of this book has just been made, and it fully maintains the reputation attained by the number for 1873. Mr. Englehardt is the boating editor of the Turf, Field, and Farm, whose able criticisms on all the late races are well known to our readers...
...English system, as is well known, has for its corner-stone the principle of heavily endowed fellowships and competitive examinations, which latter are carried to an extreme. These institutions have, to be sure, the prestige of old age, and their supporters claim that they produce the most excellent results; but their opponents maintain that, so far from effecting this, all that Englishmen have attained in the way of scholarship has been acquired in spite of the training they receive. Besides, they say, English scholarship, even if allowed to be due to these systems, furnishes a very weak argument in favor...
...BELIEVE it is not generally known among the undergraduates, that the annual games of baseball between the Yale and Harvard Nines are, this year, to be played at Saratoga. The ground for this belief is the fact, that no comment on the proposed action has been heard from the students, who certainly are deeply interested in the matter...
...course, and that the elective is not one from which he can derive the advantage which he expected. To be sure, in most instances, probably in the majority, we are fortunate enough to make a good selection; but almost all of us are conscious that if we had known more of the nature of at least one of our electives, we should not have chosen...
...thinker, who proceeds in a methodical way to prove his case, is sure to succeed far better. But it is by no means necessary for a lawyer to ever appear in court to attain success, and some who do attain it, and that in the highest degree, are never known to speak in public. And last, but most important as an element of success, is placed honesty, which, considered as policy alone, is a necessity to any one who would for any length of time hold the respect of his clients. As a worthy example of this style of lawyer...