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...were repaid for the trouble of their trip by the sight of one of the most interesting contests of the season. As the score shows, each side had made two runs at the end of the seventh inning, and at that time a glorious victory for Harvard seemed at least possible to her excited partisans. But the batting of the Mutuals in the last two innings was too much for our amateurs, and we were obliged to content ourselves with having fought a good fight. The playing of our out-fielders was up to their highest standard, and the rest...
THIS book, although originally intended for the relatives and friends, and especially for the younger members of the family, of Mr. Hughes, cannot fail to interest every one who reads it. Few persons, in this country at least, were aware, before the appearance of these memoirs, that Thomas Hughes had an older brother George, who began life almost as brilliantly as the author of "Tom Brown," and who possessed the same traits of character which have given his younger brother so prominent and honorable a position. In the opening chapters of the book, Mr. Hughes, with characteristic modesty, recounts many...
...edited by young ladies), that we fain would praise it. But our conscience scarcely permits us to do that, so we content ourselves with criticising what seem to us faults in its articles. The first part is heavily critical and religious; the poems are, to say the least, tame, and after every essay there seem to be printed the words, "Haec fabula docet." What articles are not of this nature are the merest society twaddle. Servant-girls and babies may be very pleasant topics of conversation to these young ladies, but they are hardly the subjects one would choose...
...year of work winds up, it is very natural to look back on what has been neglected, forgotten, or actually learnt. Many will regret that the last has been with them the least of the three, and feel that a mistake has been made in the eight months past, - that too much has been aimed at, and consequently too little accomplished. These will perhaps feel the force of a few words on what is becoming so common at Harvard, a fashion of trying to get a general idea of all the elective studies, rather than an accurate knowledge...
...perhaps, will deny the value of this thorough mastery of a few branches of knowledge instead of an acquaintance with all; in answer, two considerations might be brought up, - one the effect on character of becoming perfectly certain in some department of learning, feeling that in one thing at least success has been attained and not merely half-way work; the other an argument from the desire for culture - true culture - itself the training of the whole mind, not by vague ideas gained in careless study or reading, but by definite, clear-cut knowledge of that for which we feel...