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...opening Glee Club Concert of the year was given on Monday last, November 17, at West Newton, for the benefit of the Home connected with the Young Women's Christian Association, before a large and appreciative audience. It was unusually early in the year for the club to make an appearance in public, but the results justified the confidence of its members; for the concert, though not quite up to two or three of those last year, was yet quite equal in excellence to the average. At quarter of seven the club started in hacks for West Newton...
...there is no state so utterly desolate. If, as sometimes happens, any one is driven into solitude by some uncontrollable feeling of remorse, and, like that remarkable misanthrope, Timon of Athens, seek the woods, there may be enjoyment there, surrounded by all the beauties of nature, and he may make friends of these, and pass a pleasant existence. But surrounded by a crowd, as here, ready to join in adding to the comfort and pleasure of all their friends, it is an unnecessary freak, and only the outcropping of an intense egotism and vanity, adopted for the sake of attaining...
Unluckily, one finds no incentive, from his own circumstances, to pay any regard to what the rest of mankind is doing, or to make himself acquainted with the general news...
...regard to this we have two remarks to make: first, that in the most important particular the statement was absolutely wrong; and, second, that the whole matter was one which did not concern the general public in the least, and which, it is obvious to all, could not be published in a newspaper without offence to the two societies concerned. In the same paragraph was given the reputed criticism of members of the Faculty upon an article published in the last Advocate; from our knowledge of the person who furnished this batch of misrepresentations to the Advertiser, we are strongly...
...while at the same time, that other extreme, so suggestive of elementary spelling-books and "puss-in-the-corner," is nowhere to be met with in its pages. It is very interesting, extremely sensible, and thoroughly feminine. As comparisons are odious, we will not draw any; but when we make a mental contrast between the Packer and some of its masculine, "poluphloisboical" "University" brethren, we are free to say that the advantage lies all on one side...