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As an example of two sources of religious influence in our midst, we would mention the morning compulsory prayers, and the weekly meetings of the Christian Brethren. Without fear of contradiction, we think that we can say that the comparatively few meetings of the Christian Brethren attended perhaps but by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/12/1885 | See Source »

The Harvard student is the most sensitive, perhaps, of the young men of today, to any attention paid to the higher desires, even when that attention is in the paths of trade. A man of influence cannot fail to exhibit that refinement even in business. The truth of this is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education in Mercantile Life. | 12/11/1885 | See Source »

The subject of Anglomania has perhaps had quite enough prominence in our columns. We may, however, be pardoned for once more touching upon it ourselves. All the writers on Anglomania seem to agree on one point, namely, that they want a true patriotism among American students. But their ideas as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/11/1885 | See Source »

A study of the minor living poets of England discourages the hope that any among them is likely to become great, or perhaps even to be permanently a second-rate favorite. Matthew Arnold for example, or Edmund Gosse in the younger generation, and all of them, seem to have little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/9/1885 | See Source »

The essay goes on to say, that the boy who lays aside his reasoning powers, and takes without question the dictum of his teacher, is the one who learns to read and spell more readily. There is a great strain upon the powers of memorizing at the expense of everything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The English Language. | 12/8/1885 | See Source »