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...months, the confiscation of American shipping in the ports of the continent, a hundred years ago would have arrayed Europe. . . .Morals and religion have suffered with the civil rights of man, and all their institutions have been disregarded and violated. Science and literature seem to be all that is old-fashioned and good that we have left . . . . . America especially should cultivate literature. We have so much to depress our national literary character, there are so many obstacles to prevent our deserving and so many prejudices to prevent our receiving the praise of merit, that great exertions alone can obviate...
...read by the "big bugs" and discussed by the little ones, until in one winter Mrs. De Sorosis had done more to disseminate the cant terms of German metaphysics than the originators of them would have done in half a century, and today there are more twenty-five-year-old disciples of Carlyle, Hegel and Emerson, more short-haired women and long-haired men, more specimens of "Lange Haare und kurze Gedanke," as a German contemporary puts it, in Boston and vicinity than would satisfy the most ambitious autograph collector...
...Thomas of the class of 1807, says a correspondent of the Advertiser, is now the oldest Harvard graduate. He is 94 years old and lives in Plymouth...
...noble type of courtesy and good manners, and thus the debtor side of the ledger is pretty well balanced. There was a time when "rank and birth" held possession of the colleges. Now "shoddy" and "finance" are represented there, and somehow they assume the by-gone airs of the old aristocrats...
...statistics can show the actual advance in real scholarship under the new system over the old. But all acquainted with the results testify to this advance. The spirit of Harvard students has changed from the school-boy spirit to the scholarly spirit. This is fast coming true in conduct as in work. "Indeed, one sometimes becomes apprehensive lest the sense of humor may be dying out at Harvard," says Mr. Hale rather extravagantly, "and it is with something like a feeling of relief that one reads of such a bit of mischief as that recent one (conducted, it seems...