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...face and act according to the conclusions legitimately obtained from them. We have tried to conduct the hall as a student affair, and have failed; it is unpleasant to say "failed," but it is for all that the truth. It is not our purpose, nor is it necessary, to show why we have not been successful in our endeavors; we are concerned only with the remedy...
...enterprise that Mr. Moses King exhibited in publishing the Harvard Register is beginning to show itself in his book publishing business. Besides several little brochures recently issued, Mr. King has just published a book by a Cambridge man, Rev. Franklin Johnson, on "True Womanhood," in excellent style. Mr. King's new and enlarged edition of "Harvard and its Surroundings" cannot be issued for two months yet, owing to the delay in securing new views of the college buildings. Mr. King intends soon to compete with the present Cambridge dealers by opening a stock of books and stationery at his present...
...Some very exciting sparring followed. The advantage at first seemed to be in favor of Appleton, who was considerably the heavier; but towards the last of the first round Bonsal got in some good work. In the second round a good many heavy blows were exchanged, and both men showed some excitement. Appleton's sparring was the more brilliant and offensive, while Bonsal's was more defensive. In the third round both men were too excited to show any very skilful sparring. Bonsal drew the first blood by a well directed blow on Appleton's nose. The bout was decided...
...reports of the treatment of the Chinese students, which for some time have been going the rounds of the press, seem to us shocking, and serve to show how far behind the rest of the world China is in the matter of civilization. The following, clipped from the New Enterprise of Charlestown may be interesting to our readers who desire to know the fate of those poor students who were recalled by their government from this country, and torn away from the paths of learning and the refining influences of a higher civilization than their...
...language that never halt; and as for self-consciousness and disingenuousness, not the least in the world; or, if any, of a most simple and taking kind. And if there appears, now and then, a little pedantry and almost "Western" heaviness, did not the discriminating editors of the Register show their good intentions and appreciation of the fit by adopting as their motto the classic phrase from Byron, "I won't philosophize and I will be read?" And yet, we take it, still in a measure we have inherited something of the style and frequent felicity of expression possessed...