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...half-used while they are not shared. The bookish man may be selfish, but it is the exception only ; the rule is that the true lover of books is "ready to lend." And so it comes to pass that, at the close of a long, eager conversation on Robert Browning's poems, or Froude's "History," or some quaint old treasure long "out of print," the generous impulse prompts an offer of the volume discussed, It may be the listener suggests that he would like to know more on the subject. "You ought to read such and such passages," says...
Some of the men to whom the college points with pride began their career in the school, among others Presidents Leverett, Langdon, Everett and Eliot, and Professor Josiah P. Cook. Other distinguished alumni were Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Robert Treat Paine, while the present century has witnessed the graduation from the school of Charles Sumner, Robert C. Winthrop, Charles Francis Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson and hosts of others who have attained distinction, but whose names cannot be here given...
...present number of the century contains the first part of Robert Grant's "An Average Man." The story is about two Harvard graduates and part of the scene in the opening chapters is laid at Harvard...
...Robert L. Collier in a recent letter about Oxford speaks as follows about the town and the students...
...Robert Grant promises to be come a prolific novel writer. The opening chapters of his second novel will appear in the December Century, and before it makes its appearance he will have completed his third novel, which is said to be in the vein of "A Frivolous Girl." "An Average Man," which is to appear in The Century, is said to be of a serious turn. [Gazette...