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AMONG recent publications, we feel called upon to notice "An Essay on Human Understanding," by a certain Locke, of England. The book is evidently to be taken as an extravaganza or philosophical romance, and is designed, by a pleasing species of reductio ad absurdum, to ridicule the philosophers who were...
AMONG the most recent additions to the College Library are between two and three hundred volumes, the gift of Dr. Green, of Groton. A thousand German books are expected this week.
OF all persons who are cheated and pillaged without mercy, students are the most prominent, being peculiarly the victims of imposition on account of their habitual recklessness and disregard of such trifles. From every College we hear this same complaint, and it will probably continue to be the case until...
Wherever we turn in Cambridge, we meet with extortion in one shape or another, often too insignificant to deserve notice, but sometimes so open and barefaced as to arouse even the student's indignation. The price we pay for our books is outrageous, for an advance of almost twenty percent...
Ride all the morning on a train which goes at the rate of fourteen miles an hour. In the afternoon embark on a steamboat which makes between fifteen and sixteen miles an hour. (These statistics I glean from time-tables, which I studied carefully before leaving Christiania.) On board the...