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...from my speech to show...
...room, and remove a picture from the wall because its coloring displeased him? And yet his act at Memorial was exactly equivalent to this. He entered the hall, to which he had no official claim, and insulted those who rightly held authority there. Nay, more, he did not simply show a contempt of the Directors, but offered an affront to the Corporation; for it was a usurpation of their rightful prerogative. Was he really ignorant of his functions, and did he only discover afterwards that the Board of Directors was not under his control? Then...
...amount of these funds was given to Professor Peabody - by Professor Peabody himself; in other words, that with the departure of our pastor from the College, it loses one of its most effectual benefactors. Greatly as we respect the modesty of Dr. Peabody, we deem it our duty to show how great is the loss the College sustains in his resignation...
These last quotations show, I think, a pleasing contrast to the first. The poems from which they are taken have a sufficient excuse for existence, and to my untrained taste are better than many pieces that appear in our best magazines...
...have heard Special Students complain of the delay which they experience in getting their marks. While we admit that there are some of this class of students to whom their standing cannot be of the slightest interest, there are others who are deeply interested in their work, and who show that interest by constant application. It seems to us that instructors should find no difficulty in discovering who the latter are, and should take especial care to give them their marks at the time when they give them to regular students...