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...Harvard Union, and promptly sends home a copy marked in red ink. It is but natural, then, that the appearance of this important work should be awaited with interest, and that, when it is issued, it should be carefully scrutinized and sharply criticised if found to fall below the standard of its predecessors. This year the students have been subjected to a most vexations delay in obtaining the Index. It now lies before us. Can it be said that its excellence is commensurate with the amount of time spent in its preparation? Hardly, we are constrained to admit...
...about care? Look at that mantelpiece, and the things on it! Why, they're buried in ashes more hopelessly than ever Pompeii was. Our goodies are not "too good," but "satis bonxexigue," which being translated meaneth, "just good enough,"-and few of them reach even that exalted standard. Now, by the gods of Gaul, look at this! 'Gas,' $13-why, I've burned nothing except my student lamp this whole term! And what's this? 'Board at Harvard Dining Association,' $54,-well, that's rather contradicted by the next, 'Extras,' $25. If I had stuck to the regular feed...
...society issues four tracts annually upon subjects selected by a general committee. Among those issued hitherto are "Paper Money Inflation in France, a History and its Application" by Andrew D. White: "What is a Bank?" by Edward Atkinson; "Present Political and Economic Issues." "The Standard Silver Dollar and the Coinage Law of 1878," by W. C. Ford...
...sickliest and most slender, and one of his half-brothers, who was somewhat of a wag. frequently took pleasure in remarking, that "Dan was sent to school because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader of standard authors. and previous to his entering college his favorite books were Addison's Spectator, Butler's Hudibras, and Pope's trans. of Homer, and Essay on Man. He was particularly fond of Shakespeare's plays and Don Quixote. In addition to the Latin classics he studies with interest Demosthenes and a few other Greek...
...observations have been very numerous. The comets have been one of the special features. The "standard time" has been introduced and some new instruments have been invented to aid in astronomical research. Another book of Obervatory Annals and many small treatises have been published. These cover the work of the whole year and are of much value in that branch of science to which they pertain...