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WHILE thanking you for your courtesy in publishing my letter of the 9th ult., I wish to correct the impression under which you labor, that I compared the modern hydraulic machines with the old fashioned weights, which never, to my knowledge, were dignified with the epithet "rowing." I cited rowing weights at random, as affording an example by which I could illustrate a principle, namely, the mutual effects of mind and muscle...
...attempt is being made by Professor Blake and prominent citizens of New Haven, to establish a museum of art in the old State House...
LAST Wednesday morning my old door-mat disappeared. The goody's one eye twinkled with malicious delight as she informed me of my loss. She added, by way of consolation, "Bad 'cess to it! 'T was always a thrippin' me up." And I have no doubt the majority of the entry would have indorsed her sentiments, if not her brogue; for the mat, although by no means a complete hole, was yet very perfect in its way, and had acquired many of the properties that are supposed to be peculiar to traps. One rent in particular seemed...
...this old mat had a peculiar value in my eyes, for it not only served the usual purpose of mats, but it was a transmittendum, and a very venerable one, too. Long years ago one of those New England boys of the bean-pole structure, who entered college at the age of thirteen, brought the mat with him from his farm-home on Narragansett Bay. It was new then, and had been woven in bright colors by an old Indian squaw, a veritable descendant of King Philip. For a year it lay before the front door of the old farm...
...that I am a Junior), - with their altered demeanor, I say, in regard to those little soirees in U. E. R. compared with the nervous dread with which they anticipated their first examinations within these sacred walls. Now they merely express astonishment at the old-fashioned notions of a professor, who, wishing to know how far his disciples have profited by his instructions, takes the high-school way of making them commit to paper the knowledge which they have received from him during the past three months. But on the whole there is a sublime indifference to such petty annoyances...