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...above letter by the Dean to the Advertiser ought certainly to convince all who have heard no more than the newspaper accounts of this difficulty of the unfair light in which the journals placed the matter before the public. We cannot repeat too often to those who are not acquainted with the &Phi. B. K. Society that the character of its members is above reproach for quietness and orderly conduct, and we are glad to record the reprimand passed by the Police Commissioners upon the uncalled-for brutality of the officer. In future, it may teach policemen to distinguish between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEAN'S LETTER. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

Pass on still twenty years, and we arrive at the age in professors' lives when they are fading away into fossils. Now they are indeed the lean and slippered pantaloons spoken of by the poet. Like the phonograph, they repeat the sayings of fifty years ago, and they further resemble that excellent machine in being unable to change their ideas. Are they dogmatic? Good gracious, no! They are the most liberal men in the world, as long as you don't try to argue with them. They like to tell the old, old stories, and expect you to laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

This heart-born wish most fervently repeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER A LONG SILENCE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...that our own professors would do something in this way for us, as well as for other colleges and for the public. Many students who cannot spare time to go into Boston would gladly attend lectures if given here, and we hope that Professor Fiske will be able to repeat in Cambridge the course of lectures which have already proved so interesting to audiences elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...most pleasing of his works. It abounds in bright and humorous passages, and at the same time, there is a pathos, running through the two principal parts, of an exceedingly refined quality. To say that Mr. Sothern brings this out to its fullest extent, is simply to repeat that he is a finished actor and a gentleman. The support is not very good, the tendency being to overact the comic parts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

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