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...affairs, especially when he shows by two or three passages in his work that he is not brainless, and might do better. Some of his ideas are excellent and worthy of attention; we would suggest to him that by his inaccuracy he has defeated his end and done harm rather than good, and that if he is going further with tale writing he will do well to take more time and more pains to make his work correct...
READY FOR THE 25TH.- A gentleman's Dressing Cabinet is a rather elaborate subject to handle at a popular price, but for the Holiday Season there are always special prices quoted on these cabinets by PAINE'S Furniture Co., and this year they are selling a superb Dressing Cabinet at the unprecedented price of $15. It is a remarkable value...
...shown by the fact that the most marked signs of progress have been in the Law School, the Medical School, and the Scientific School, not in the college proper. This progress simply means that the attention of the people is now fixed on the great work of the University rather than on any one part of it, as, for instance, the college; and to meet the expectation of the cultured public which watches Harvard's lead with the greatest interest, and to meet the demands of the most advanced thought there is this constant raising of standards and adoption...
Admitting the evil, which seems perfectly obvious, how is it to be done away with? We have said that no rule can justly be passed. The remedy cannot be a sudden one, subverting the whole system at one blow. It seems to us that the cure lies rather in a slow but steady raising of the standard of college honor. Not many years ago there was little opposition to practical jokes in the class room or to the most open cheating in examinations. The jokes have gone and the petty cheater is now looked upon as mean and contemptible. These...
READY FOR THE 25TH.- A gentleman's Dressing Cabinet is a rather elaborate subject to handle at a popular price, but for the Holiday Season there are always special prices quoted on these cabinets by PAINE'S Furniture Co., and this year they are selling a superb Dressing Cabinet at the unprecedented price of $15. It is a remarkable value...