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...Review. The one who contributed the greatest number of articles was Edward Everett, who wrote no less than one hundred and sixteen. This number becomes more astonishing when we reflect that during Mr. Everett's first editorship, he was just entering on his duties as professor, and during his second he was a member of Congress. Notwithstanding these other duties, Mr. Everett once took lessons in Spanish for three weeks, in order to review Dean Funes' History of Paraguay...
...third Junior forensics will be due as follows: First division, January 8; second division, January 15; third division, January 22; fourth division, January...
...grievance number one, I would suggest that it has nothing to do with the selection of new books, under which head the writer classes all his wrongs. I venture to state that on proper application to headquarters the necessity of a second copy of any book would be investigated, and, if proved, would be followed by the purchase of the book. I can testify from my own experience that the Librarian is only too glad to satisfy all just demands...
...second grievance, existing only in the mind of the writer, I can only refer him for a remedy to an M. D. The Library fund is certainly not expended in buying "trashy French novels." The only possible source from which your author can have originated such an idea is that a portion of one bequest has been spent in buying some of the best new French novels; the rest of the fund, as I have just learned by inquiring at the Library, having been spent on standard authors. I do not know what peculiar tastes your writer may have...
...shown by the number of men who last Sunday took advantage of this privilege and appeared in the Hall between nine and half-past. Considering how dear to most of us is that extra "forty winks" on the only morning whose slumberous stillness is unbroken by either first or second bell, and considering that all private clubs have late breakfasts on Sunday, it seems strange that the Board have not been sooner compelled, by complaints and discussions of the matter among the members, to take this action. However, late as it comes, we welcome the change; everything that makes boarding...