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AMONG recent publications, we feel called upon to notice "An Essay on Human Understanding," by a certain Locke, of England. The book is evidently to be taken as an extravaganza or philosophical romance, and is designed, by a pleasing species of reductio ad absurdum, to ridicule the philosophers who were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK REVIEW. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

The poetical nature of the book is also to be noticed, which is a rare merit in a work of this nature. The divinus afflatus has rarely inspired a man to indite odes to his mother-in-law, and almost as rarely does the gentle muse of poetry venture over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK REVIEW. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

It is a University crew; and although the Law and Medical Schools cannot pull in a race, the interest they take in the result of the Regatta is quite as great as that of the undergraduates. So many of the members of these schools are graduates of Harvard, that we...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

WITH the renaissance in Society matters at Harvard, it seems that a chess-club might be maintained by the students to advantage. A large number of men have some knowledge of this game of games, and would probably join such a club if started, and find it convenient to play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

THE Yale Record calls our attention to an article on swearing in its issue of October 14, which propounds the following conundrum: "If you lacerate the feelings of the more decent portion of society with your oaths and imprecations, are you a gentleman? " The context clearly shows that the answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »