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...will be found in the coming elections in England that the land question has effaced the old party divisions...
EDITORS OF HARVARD HERALD: Now that the mid-years are almost upon us, the old question about heating Massachusetts again comes up. Past experience has shown that, heretofore, all efforts in this direction have proved of no avail. Is it impossible to heat the building? This is certainly a matter of vital importance to the students who are to have examinations there. In all probability the weather will be very cold during the time of the examinations and the dreary thought of sitting three hours in that ice-house is certainly not encouraging...
...scene represents the ancient palace, with a magnificent court-yard adorned with fountains and statues; everything has been done to imitate as nearly as possible the old Greek stage, and the blue sky is seen on all sides, apparently as far as the eye can reach. The whole effect of the stage appointment is strikingly brilliant, and will certainly make a profound impression on the audience...
...social and literary brilliancy; a city with magnificent theatres and music-halls, and art galleries which receive the latest gems from foreign studios; we have at our command the best libraries in America, and with such opportunities as these, we do not feel the necessity of the old traditional college life, which contained much that is nonsensical and harmful. Many, too, are within a few hours' ride of home, and spend a good portion of their time away from Cambridge, rendering impossible the state of social life existing at the college of a small provincial town. However, while our enthusiasm...
...rolled-up sleeves and floury fingers, entering so ardently into what will become for so many of them, very soon, a serious part of their life's plan - in view of the inevitable recurrence, three times a day, of something to be cooked; the inevitable Biddy, with all her old-world ignorance thick about her, and the likewise inevitable "John," the state of whose affections, we are assured, is singularly dependent on the success of our culinary operations...