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Engineeringy is good! Moreover, it is only one of those words which impart such a vague flavor of Physics and Mathematics to the whole number. The column headed "Spectrum Lines" shows conclusively that the editor's "lines have not fallen in pleasant places," for the wit and point in its jokes are carefully concealed. In other respects the paper is quite commendable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...second number has just been received, and it is but justice to say that it is a great improvement on the first...

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FIRST. The cost of one vote in a public body varies inversely as the whole number of votes in that body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...same number contains a poem, "Our Mother," which, though highly creditable from a filial point of view, contains much that is peculiar. The first verse, to quote Count Smorltork, "surprises by himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...fathomed their nature; yet we are cautious in assigning this reason, for Boston is not like other towns, and perhaps would be able to judge without experience. But starting from this place, the student of Harvard finds that the consideration which he receives increases in proportion to the number of miles which separate him from his point of departure; and, with this increase of consideration, he also observes that there springs up an exaggerated notion of the life he leads at college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE REPUTATION. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »