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...HAVE a complaint to make against the length of the papers in the hour examinations that frequently take place both in elective courses and in prescribed work...
...Syracusan contains articles on "Lord Beacons-field, "Socialism," "The Study of Music," such as one might find in almost any other of our exchanges, and equally stale, flat, and unprofitable; but with one pleasing difference, that none of them is over a column and a half in length. When platitudes are the order of the day, those who write them most briefly deserve most credit and most thanks. In the Bowdoin Orient we find an essay of four columns in length on Emerson, which tells us nothing new, and suggests as little. We should have more patience with it, were...
...Trinity Tablet thinks that the literary productions of small colleges have not received their due, and quotes at length from the papers of the large colleges to show the inferiority of the literature of the latter. These quotations are by far the most interesting thing in the Tablet, and hardly justify the following conclusions...
...length, at last, the hour of fate...
...length, at last, thy long-closed eyes...