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In these days of rebellion against compulsory prayers, and of numerously signed, but ungranted petitions, it would be well to bear in mind the burdens under which the students of earlier days of the college had to struggle. During a part of the 17th, and the earlier years of the...
to the hills. But C., ah C.! He heard the summons of the blast, and cooly sauntering into the library, took from the mathematical alcove an armful of books, and loaded down with treatises on calculus, determinants, quarternions, arbitrary functions and the theory of the potential, a very Archimedes, with...
This was an admirable period, and an admirable place for me to lay aside my pen. But my conscience, or a dxmon, or a vision, or something bids me write on. For to tell the truth, ever since I wrote the first paragraph of this desultory essay, I have been...
Some twenty-five years ago, a number of letters, written by Boswell, were accidentally discovered and after a time were printed. They serve to throw considerable light on his peculiar character, for in them he expresses most unreservedly his ideas on people, on women, on love, on himself-indeed, on...
Passing over several such episodes, we come to the real love-affair of his life,-that with a certain Miss Blair. He was in love with her for several years, and she with him, yet when one wanted to marry, the other didn't, so nothing came of it. The...