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...come first, including bibliography, library economy and history, and works on books and reading. This heading is followed by (2) Theology and philosophy, under which are placed both general and physiological psychology, ecclesiastical and biblical subjects, ethics and ethnic religions. (3) Science embraces medicine, veterinary science, pseudo-science, and magic. (4) Useful arts includes all forms of industrial science, manufactures and bandicrafts, the combative arts, agriculture, lanscape-gardening, building (but not architecture), navigation, and aeronautics. (5) Fine arts embraces music, the archaeology of art and numismatics. (6) Antiquities (including folk-lore) takes other departments of archaeology; popular ballads and tales...
...Rigid Constitution gains in influence by age, and its permanency is shown by the fact that amendments carried in the legislature are usually rejected by the mass of the people The magic of self-love increases the respect felt for it ; but it is weakened by becoming a less adequate expression of the growing people's needs. The two great defects of the American Constitution are the absence of a uniform law of marriage, and the method of electing a president ; but so complicated is the machinery for altering the constitution that a reform in these points is hardly possible...
...novels, and long haired grinds. We snub the library, but maintain silence when we are informed that "you can get in, even after four o'clock." Another corridor, a door; we enter, and the first object that meets our eye is a black, battered beaten, Brimless beaver with the magic legend upon it, H. '85, Below the hat is suspended a bottle, a cologne bottle we conjecture. About the broken handles of the wreck of what once might have been a campaign torch are tied three filthy rags. What visions these symbols conjured up! "Is he, is he dead...
...regard Napoleon and his empire. The strength to the old Napoleon's legend is rapidly declining, although twenty or thirty years ago it was still very powerful. So powerful in fact, that when in 1848 Prince Louis Napoleon was nominated for the Presidency of the Republic, the mere magic of his name was sufficient to give him an overwhelming majority. The results of the Franco-German war, however, have greatly dimmed the lustre of the French arms under Napoleon, and many of the present French Republicans are exceedingly bitter towards the First Consul, charging that he took France with...
...must take what his elders leave him, or go without. Let us hope, therefore, that some other millionaire graduate will remedy this sad state of affairs by building a new and roomy dormitory, which shall perpetuate his name, and save the race of Freshmen from total banishment from the magic circle...