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However graceful and musical such poetry may be, the amount of dictionary work involved is more than sufficient to deter the general reader from dipping very deep into...
...with the author, glowing like him with real pride at the thought, "To have placed itself at the historic headship of the race that cut off all pre-historic races, and crushed out of being all synchronic races, is certainly proof of no mean power, worthy almost scientific recognition." May we be pardoned for presuming to hint that in this very instance it has obtained recognition by the "almost scientific." But this is not all. On such a colossal scale was it that "it fused facts back and down into the central force of a personal will, from and upon...
...Insurance Companies should find it for their interest to do this thing. We nowhere find advertisements of the Philosopher's Stone, or of the Circular Square; but we do read of "wholesome pie," which falls into the same category. Attorneys-at-Law, Shaving Bazaars, and Fire Extinguishers, all these may be admitted. But we do most seriously advocate the incarceration in an insane asylum of the man who repeatedly advertises in a Western exchange his little hotel, and states, as an extra inducement to college customers, that "this is the only temperance hotel in the county." Of such stuff...
...gliding away of these few short months. But to upper class men, who begin to realize that soon the business of life must begin, and they will be put to the test in a broader field, where other standards are in use than those of college opinion, the thought may well occur, whether their present manner of life is at all fitting them, either in character or intellect, for the part they wish to play. Few there be to whom this question, squarely faced, does not afford ample scope for profitable reflections on the past and good resolutions...
...business, would serve the interests of the Club much better than it is possible for any undergraduate, however able and zealous, to do. At Williams College the poor students obtain excellent fare at $2.50 per week, while here the fare is poor and insufficient at $4 per week. It may be said that prices are much lower one hundred and fifty miles back in the country than near a large city. This is true; but it must also be considered that a club of three hundred men ought to obtain board at a much cheaper proportional rate than a club...