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...Yale Courant is about as near our ideal of a college paper as any publication we know of. Often entertaining, never dull, full of articles which we can all read with pleasure, - articles full of life, - its locals pithy, its criticisms just, its whole tone manly, the Courant does honor to its editors and to the institution from which it comes." - Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

Jules Verne's extravagant stories have a sort of fish-hook interest about them. It is too often forgotten by those who criticise him severely that he writes for the young, and that almost all he publishes appears in a magazine for young folks. To my unscientific mind he succeeds perfectly in what he attempts to do. One of his latest works, L'lle Mysterieuse, is a sort of Robinson Crusoe romance. But there is, after all, little choice among his books, of which everybody should at least read one in the original. Hector Malot's Romain Kalbris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH SUMMER READING. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

...touchstones, to be applied to him by one or another of his friends. Mere acquaintances judge you by your gait, your clothes, the sound of your voice, the tie of your cravat, and the smoothness of your hair. And even in this they do not seem to be consistent, often applying the test in an exactly opposite manner to different persons. But however that may be, believe me, there is not one of your pet oddities that does not go a great way in the estimate that some one forms of your character. I have here an excellent opportunity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS AND BOOK-CASES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

...subjects. And even here it is gradually getting to be acknowledged that a thorough education is better than a superficial one. Now, no one will maintain that a thorough education can be gained by electing one or two courses in each department that appears on the scheme. Yet how often this is done! How many men are there who choose their studies for the Sophomore year without the slightest thought of what they are going to take in the Junior year, and continue their plan by choosing their Junior studies without regard to those that they will select for their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

...rows are usually four or five miles long, on which the crew is followed by the coach in another boat, and stopped often for instruction. Every few days a longer journey is taken to give the men a chance to get together. On Saturday last the row was to Watertown and back. The speed was fair, and the men kept the boat unusually steady for this time of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREW. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »