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Then it is that we feel the want of some kind of exercise more quickly and easily taken. Some men, too, fear the odorous, chilly air of our model Gymnasium; for them other physical relief from study is needed...
...explanations, and so the scholiasts were, no doubt, defended. In truth, however, it happens again and again that the student of some Greek play attends recitations faithfully, listens carefully to what is said at them, fills sheet after sheet with "notes," and at last, with a sigh of relief, throws down his book without having caught one glimmer of that light which, for those who see it, shines as brightly now as it did when the most ignorant man in Athens felt the roll of the thunder in AEschylus' words, and was the wiser and the better for it. Such...
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...imagine the relief that is found in turning from a pile of College "magazines," etc., to the old, familiar, yellow face of the Atlantic, the June number of which is now before us. Mr. Aldrich has closed his "Prudence Palfrey" in a strikingly original and unexpected manner; and, as a whole, it is, decidedly, one of the most readable of American novels. Whatever Mr. Aldrich writes is never stale and never dull, and we hope and believe that this will not be the last of his contributions to the Atlantic. "Mose Evans" also concludes with this number; G. P. Lathrop...
With him and it came their relief...