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...aristocratic patrons of the famous yellow-covered novels (ycleped Beadle's) can now read the "Charge of the Light Brigade" and other rather ennobling pieces, at a like price. Could the piracy so indiscriminately employed with the books of English authors be turned to some public good, the school-boy of the future might buy "Tom Brown" for a dime, and the poorest family might have its Bible, Shakspere, and Principles of Political Economy...
...hundred and forty years have passed since a "school or college" was founded by the "General Court" on the then verdant banks of Charles River. In those good old days Gown reigned supreme; the boating-men could have rowed a race from Watertown to the spot afterwards to be made famous by the great Taft, without entangling their oars, or rather paddles, in the frequent drawbridge. No gas-works as yet disturbed the sylvan freshness of the scene; horse-car tracks were unknown; the classic shades of Harvard held peaceful sway from their throne of elms to the hills beyond...
...Reed was to take charge of a school in Cleveland, into which it was his earnest wish to infuse as much as he could of Harvard feeling. His death is but another instance of self-denying and laborious preparation deprived of the expected opportunity to fulfil itself here. Did we not believe that it was to have elsewhere a wider scope, we should only have despair where we now find consolation. On Thursday he was buried (as he had wished to be) from the church in Cambridge-port, - the church to which he had given a large share...
...American tendency to apply the name of "college" to every school that attempts to impart anything beyond the first rudiments of knowledge is well shown here. There are three hundred and thirty-five institutions mentioned in this Directory, which differ in everything but in name. At one of these institutions there are 1,330 students, and at another there are 7 students, but they are both called "colleges...
...Morris, Medical School, coxswain...