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Most of us have heard that the English government watch the debates in order to select the most promising speakers and put them in office; whether this be true or not, there have certainly been many men who were prominent in the Societies and afterwards attained great prominence in public life. For instance, in a list of one hundred and fifty five Presidents at Oxford there are thirty who are marked as M. P.'s, or as in some way connected with the government, while almost seventy have some distinction either of rank or in the government, in the Universities...
...have received the Ulula, the Manchester (Eng.) Grammar School Magazine. It is one of the most pretentious of our English exchanges, and contains, among other things, a poem called "The Joyful Geologist," from which we select the following stanzas...
...first recitation. The room is pleasant and commodious, - capable of seating six hundred. Though attendance at services is not compulsory, to our surprise nearly all the students were present. The Faculty appear in a body upon the platform, and produce a much finer effect than the distribution of a select few in sentinel-boxes. The appearance of a score of ladies in the front seats strikes a visitor from a staid institution for males as somewhat peculiar. He soon begins to admire, however, and concludes that they are decidedly more ornamental than carved work or fresco. Singing is a pleasant...
Professor Dennett graduated at Harvard in 1862, and his life from thence to the time of his death has been devoted to the improvement of the literature of the country. When, in 1869, Professor Child was called upon to select for an assistant the man whom he considered best fitted for the place, he named John Richard Dennett. He filled the position of Assistant Professor of Rhetoric here for two years, and during that time he won the respect of the Faculty and the esteem of the students. It was to the great regret of all undergraduates that he resigned...
...certain principles or doctrines; that by mastering these doctrines and the application, we shall know what the law should be to be logical, where it is illogical, and how it is illogical. It conceives that these doctrines can be most advantageously studied by taking a series of cases carefully selected from the reports and making them the subject of study and instruction; and hence the new system is to select, classify, and arrange all the cases which have contributed in any important degree to the growth, development, or establishment of any of the essential doctrines, - to study the law systematically...