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...Legislature is unwilling to make any further appropriation till it is convinced that the amount already expended has been well used. It is indeed difficult for one not acquainted with the subject to see where the appropriations have been employed, but still it does not on that account seem necessary for the State to withhold further pecuniary support when its directors promise that, with such aid, it will not be long before the scientific world will acknowledge that the Museum of Comparative Zoology has no superior, nor even equal, in the world...
...Shakspere himself, both in his youth and riper years. To carry on this broader study it is necessary to arrange the plays in true chronological order, which the Society proposes to do by an examination of the gradual change in Shakspere's versification through his life; and, for any one anxious to understand the poet, it cannot fail to be interesting to read the familiar plays under the light thrown on them from time by the papers and discussions of this Society. It is pleasant to know that the founders of the Society do not intend to confine its benefits...
...scheme of electives reminds us of the approach of the time for choosing studies for the next year, and brings to mind one of the practical failings of the elective system. Very many of us have found that the liberty given in this direction fails of accomplishing its end, and that from the want of knowledge of the nature of some of the studies offered we are but little better off than we should be if the studies were decided for us. The fault does not lie in the Elective System itself, but in the necessity of choosing without sufficient...
THIS is highly colored: "The lilacs are budding," says a Wisconsin editor. "You lilac Satan," responds one of his readers. "You violet truth," politely replied the editor. And both are given over to blue devils...
...have it on good authority that one of those rustic Aggies, living in West Springfield, raised last summer one hundred and fifty mullein-plants, under the hallucination that they were tobacco. - Review...