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...recent restrictive resolutions of the overseers have called forth such comment in the newspapers of the day, and particularly in the college press, as to put in an unfair light the liberal policy of our university. It has suddenly become the fashion for many other colleges to wash their hands of Harvard's system and to put themselves on record as supporters to a greater or less extent of the conservative spirit. It is, of course, obvious that a blind liberal policy is more dangerous than a blind conservative policy, but that critic of the Harvard system who designates...
...publications of the Museum the past year have been very numerous. Among other works, Dr. Agassiz has given out two volumes on the "Cruise of the Blake," and one volume of Prof. Ernst Ehler's "Deep Sea Florida Annelids" has gone to press. This last work has been long expected, and is said to be the most exhaustive treatment of the subject yet written...
...Lessing's Prosa. Edited by Horatio Stevens White. G. P. Putnam's Sons. The Knickerbocker Press. New York and London...
...Knickerbocker Press has added another to its bright collection of "Nuggets" -this time the old, familiar, AEsop's Fables, translated by Rev. Thomas James, M. A., and illustrated by John Tenniel. Old though these fables be, they are now more attractive than ever in this new edition, with its rough edges and dainty covers. Indeed a more charming little volume could hardly be added to one's library, for the translation is in a happy vein, and the pictures are as quaint and old fashioned as the fables they illustrate. It is just the book to take up after...
...Allen and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, revised by Henry Preble. Boston. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Riverside Press...