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The miserable gingerbread covers put on the standard books so temptingly displayed in the dollar stores surely add nothing to their value. In England the same books in plain paper covers sell at about one fourth the price. Few college men there are but would like to read and own...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEAP LITERATURE. | 12/4/1874 | See Source »

A young man need not fear to undertake the responsibility of a teacher's office, if he have the qualifications usually required. There are men who are made for teachers, and they go on improving from youth to age; and if there were enough of them to fill all the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOL-TEACHING. | 12/4/1874 | See Source »

In all countries and under all forms of religion signal events of public and private importance have been commemorated by proper ceremonies. Paganism as well as Christianity celebrated the coming of age, the safe return from sea, and numberless other similar incidents. Nothing is more grateful to the human heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHAPLAINCY. | 12/4/1874 | See Source »

To those who board at Memorial Hall, still another consideration presents itself. By late dinners the gas expenses, already sufficiently large, will be increased, as the waiters and other employes will be engaged in clearing up till a very late hour. Nor is this all. Men will not be satisfied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATE DINNERS. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

PERHAPS no community of men is less subject to the thoughts which attend a realizing sense of the inevitability and imminence of death than a college community; and this for several reasons. Of these the most important is the age of its members, to which the consideration of death is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1874 | See Source »