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THE imagination can picture to itself no pleasanter fancies than those connected with the early and best days of art, the first and grandest development of civilization. Before the days of stern practicality, when men had time to admire the beautiful, and each race, as it emerged from barbarism, turned...
THE simultaneous publication of two books, written by students of this University, is a literary event of no small importance to us, and is a triumphant answer to those who assert that literature is at a discount here. The books are now in press, and will be for sale in...
"When Charles Lamb complained of the decay of beggers in the metropolis, he was surely thinking more of those who appeal for charity in the streets than of those who haunt the doors of our lodgings. These latter are the ones who besiege us, and nuisances they are. If I...
Sturdy honesty of purpose, it seems to us, is so much better than any kind of policy, that we wonder any are found so impolitic as to surrender it on any terms. A man with a plain, honest character, simple and unostentatious, is too anomalous an individual in college to...
EVERY year, or, at the most, every five years, witnesses the rise and fall of a popular poet. His coming is as certain as that of a financial panic, rather more frequent, and, in its way, almost as disastrous; but, though his end is often pitiable, he enjoys, for a...