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THAT the authors of the neat pamphlet now before us should have refrained from making public their names certainly shows commendable modesty. Nevertheless we cannot help regretting that writers who are evidently destined to make their mark in the field of literature should have felt this hesitation. The mantle of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK REVIEW. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

IT is with pleasure that we print this week a letter from Mr. William Cook in relation to his method of marking examination-books. Perhaps, on the whole, he is right in refusing to contribute an account of it to the columns of a college paper. We certainly think it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

THEY have a piano in the gymnasium at Williams, and they speak of it as one of the gymnasium's properties. Perhaps the Williams students practise calisthenics to the sound of soft music. The Athenaeum also tells us that college students are typical grumblers. For an aphorism this is good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

THE February number of the Vassar Miscellany fully maintains the high standing of this excellent magazine. The articles are all of very equal merit. "How and What shall a Child read?" is well conceived, and the ideas are good. We are sorry, however, to notice an absence of poetry from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

The conditions of most of the existing scholarships have been fixed by their donors, and it would be difficult - and perhaps, in some cases, not even desirable - to change them. Still, opportunities for a new departure seem to exist, and future benefactors would be influenced by any views that were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »