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...whom any other can be applied only with a very slight degree of correctness, are specialists; and their specialism has to be attended with great injury to themselves as well as to the general interests of the college. We have men who grind all the time, whole sole ambition is to grind in that ever laudable hope of getting high marks. Others desire nothing but athletic records, or reputations for dress, good looks, rapidity of living, and number and size and variety of bull-pups. All such are specialists. Not one of them is getting that for which he came...
...piece of literary workmanship" it is far from perfect; the book abounds in inharmonious and loosely-constructed sentences; it contains positive errors so glaring as to be palpable to the merest survey; the use of metophor is carried to such an extent as to be wearisome; and the sole merit of the book is the entertaining way in which a clever but fantastic and imaginative, idea is developed into an interesting story. For interesting it certainly is, but decidedly not powerful. The manner in which the story is told is another ground for criticism, for the grand climax...
Boswell at length married an Irish lady, for the sole reason, so far as I can discover, that she was willing to marry him; this was so unusual a chance that he appears to have embraced it eagerly. His marriage, however, did not radically change him, and we are not surprised to read, a year after, in a brief letter written on a journey, that: "There is a Miss Silverton in the fly with me, an amiable creature who has been in France. I can unite little fondnessess with conjugal love." Boswell must have been a unique sort of travelling...
...have made arrangements with the celebrated firm of Morton Bros., of Troy, N. Y., to do my laundry work. J. F. NOERA, sole agent of the Original Troy Laundry, Holyoke St., opposite Holyoke House...
...have made arrangements with the celebrated firm of Morton Bros., of Troy, N. Y., to do my laundry work. J. F. NOERA, sole agent of the Original Troy Laundry, 436 and 348 Harvard Street...