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...morning organ-concerts at the Chapel, by Mr. Paine, are becoming quite popular. For the last two mornings large and fashionable audiences have listened in breathless silence...
...Boston publishers would take in hand the subject of cheap publications of the best and most popular books, the whole country would be the gainer. Something of the kind has been done by that enterprising house Messrs. Estes and Lauriat, and their "Half-Hour Recreations in Popular Science" are a move in the right direction...
...SUCCESS" is the title of an interesting article in the last number of the Advocate. The word itself is popular almost everywhere in this country, and we find it here as the index to a view of life that is also widely held, though rarely so frankly stated. This view can be given in a few sentences. The business of a man's life is happiness, which, if not equivalent to, is at least entirely dependent on, success. The attainment of some final object, whatever it is, is thus the great requisite in his life; and, success being insured...
...novelty of the entertainment would no doubt suffice to fill the gallery for months to come, but popular interest might eventually decline unless proper stimulants were offered. To meet this difficulty I should propose the following plan...
...high place in his class, even if entering under a full card of conditions. Exceptions occur, and yet perhaps the larger part of the leading fifth of most classes are from schools of no general reputation. The reason for this lies in the fault of many of the most popular schools in the country. Too many men who enter with honor rely entirely on their fit, and, feeling for the first few months superior in knowledge to their "country cousins," as in the fable of the hare and tortoise, suddenly find themselves distanced...