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...experienced tutor in Solid Geometry may be found at 27 Hollis. Terms low and satisfaction guaranteed...
...great regattas at Saratoga. Any contest that occurs every year soon assumes the character of an old story for the rapid, irrepressible American, always thirsting for something new. Now that the novelty of college boating has worn off, the factitious excitement disappears, but there is left a solid residuum of enduring interest, which, perhaps, is worth as much in the way of encouraging the sports as the exaggeration and eclat of former days...
With a real old solid thumpin...
...Momenta Lankiana," a series of biographical papers, afford some very creditable specimens of Yankee humor, and are very readable; indeed, the entire volume is readable, and, spiced throughout as it is by Dr. Holmes' wit, is very enjoyable. Solid articles have their due share of space, however. The volume is ended by a poetical "Tail Piece" by Holmes...
...further argues in favor of substituting regular weekly examinations, in place of the present system of annual or of term examinations. Then it says very strongly : "Under such a system, and with other equally necessary reforms, a college degree might be made to represent a certain understood amount of solid acquirement, which it certainly does not now." This is emphatic language, - perhaps too emphatic ; but that the present examination system is an abuse, and very nearly an imposition and a fraud, is an opinion which is coming to be held by so many nowadays that it cannot be laughed away...