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...feel just now in a complaining mood, let us leave the excellences, and consider some of the defects in the modern process of book-making, - defects which in the productions of some publishers are only too prominent...
...colors of the rainbow, as is done especially in some recent editions of the poets, is enough to blackball them against admittance into the libraries of persons of taste. Better the old-fashioned, sober, hog-skin cover than the flash and flimsy bindings of some of our modern books...
...seven, 20 in eight, 9 in nine, and 16 in ten. Of these latter, 3 obtained 70 per cent or over in eleven studies, and 1 in twelve studies on account of having taken "extras." There are 62 men on the rank-list in Classics, 60 in Modern Languages, 69 in Rhetoric, 83 in Themes, 67 in Forensics, 60 in Philosophy, 75 in Political Economy, 42 in History, 13 in Mathematics, 107 in Physics, 80 in Physics (lectures), 34 in Chemistry, 38 in Natural History, and 3 in Music. The average per cents on the rank-list in the required...
Does not this kind of reasoning bear a little heavily upon some who are disposed to think differently of this subject,-for example, upon those who, intending hereafter to take up the study of modern law, happen to consider a knowledge of the nature of the root and trunk of the tree necessary to a proper appreciation of its fruits...
...again well, or, at least, not very ill. But sociability and smoking tend to introduce beer, and upon the foundations of this trio, all harmless in themselves, a very pretty character may be built - or destroyed. So with theatre-going - a profitable recreation; but the unfortunate predilection of modern society for the spectacular (a word intimately associated with blond wigs and pink tights) exists even in Cambridge. Sometimes, alas! sic itur ad astra, - which are hardly to be considered heavenly bodies...