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...value of their own possessions, so also they do not strive to gain that which they hold in little estimation. The old belief that a good memory was incompatible with a sound judgment has long since been exploded as contrary, not only to common sense, but to a large number of actual examples. The depreciation of memory is, then, largely a prejudice, and in so far unreasonable. Then the habit, so common, of putting on paper every fact we wish to remember, instead of impressing it upon our minds, has a weakening effect on the memory. Notes are useful...
...Cambridge, knocked at a student's door, and to the repeated summons of "Come in!" only knocked again, when they were finally greeted with an oath. It is perfectly clear to all that swearing is a vulgar and useless habit, and we are sorry that one of our number has been betrayed into it, especially before ladies; and we hope that the fitness of polite communication will be clear to the offender in future, and that no similar complaint will again reach...
...wants of those of our subscribers who desire to have the Magenta bound in volumes, we have prepared an appropriate title-page with Index of Contents. This will be ready at Richardson's during the coming week, and will be sold at cost. We also have a limited number of the issues under Volume II. from which incomplete sets may be filled...
...Atlantic for March is a good number, containing more descriptive and less purely literary articles than usual. We notice a very plausible hypothesis in regard to the original extraction of the Californian Indians, by Stephen Powers. If the theory is not fully established, the importance of philological inquiry in researches of this nature is beautifully shown...
...internal evidence afforded by the Bowdoin Orient goes to show that the interest in college journalism at Bowdoin must be at a very low ebb. We are sorry it is so, but candor compels us to say that the number for February II is shockingly flimsy...