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...which he ably defends the spirit of civil service reform. "Emerson's Talks with a College Boy" is a collection of remarks made by the great essayist to Charles J. Woodbury, while the latter was a student at Williams. It is accompanied by an engraving from a full length portrait of Emerson painted about 1859. Charles de Kay has a well illustrated article on some of the newly discovered Greek terracottas. "A Corner of Old Paris." by Elizabeth Balch, is a charming sketch of the Musee des Archives, with many excellent reproductions of old paintings and prints. The serials...
...first of its kind in the country. The building is a three story structure of brick, with brown stone trimmings, having a frontage of forty feet and a depth of thirty-five feet. The greenhouse is divided into three parts all of which run the entire length of the building, each part being entirely in dependent of the others. These three parts of the greenhouse will be used for growing all kinds of fungi. The greenhouse itself will have no heating apparatus, but will be used merely to protect such plants as are being experimented with...
...this effect recently. We notice the clipping from the Sun editorially, not by way of criticism, but simply in order to correct a misconception. The rumor has its rise, no doubt, in the discussion which has been going on of late relative to a proposed change in the length of the Harvard course from four to three years. No action whatever has as yet been taken in the matter...
...interest and the strong scene with which this installment closes is in the author's best manner. There are as usual a number of editorials, the one on Browning being rather a conservative criticism, and the recent work of Harris Taylor on the English Constitution is reviewed at length...