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...many amusing things that the reader of the daily papers has found this summer, the most absurd probably are the "resolutions" passed by the Aldermen of New York in honor of the victorious Columbia crew. A great many of the denizens of the metropolis were doubtless enthusiastic over the news, and the city fathers thought they were anticipating the wishes of Columbia graduates and the people at large in offering the victors a public welcome on their return; but the language in which their preamble was couched was such a marked instance of "slopping over" that the most ardent sympathizers...
...begin with, his book is much too long; it would take Macaulay to read it through without skipping. Secondly, Hammersmith is unnaturally successful; the author has seen the necessity of giving him a few defects, but even these are such as would be likely to endear him to the reader. He is represented as being lazy about his studies, but the author has nevertheless elected him into the Phi Beta; in short, he is a favored child of nature, or rather of Mr. Severance...
...such a comparison between the universities of England and America the reader is referred to an article in the North American Review by President Eliot. The length of the English term and the American term, the modes of instruction, the systems of examination, the discipline and morals in the colleges of both countries, are compared in such a way as to show what is best adapted to the wants of undergraduates...
...popularity," did not affect our subsequent arguments, which were not directed to prove the falsehood of our misquotation, but to defend independence and its necessary accompaniment, - the clear expression, when proper, of disapprobation. Next, he says that he merely stated where we said he argued a certain proposition. Any reader will see that our " argue " meant no more than " state." This is trivial fault-finding. Further he says that our inference that part of his aim was to show that there was little toadyism in college was, as he thinks, intentionally wrong. We are glad that such...
...reader, what would you give to know...