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...crowded with something to be seen, or heard, or learned, until one begins to wonder how much of all this rich material one's mind is laying up in store, and how much it treacherously lets slip, since minds are sometimes quite as lazy as their owners. To be sure it's a very deplorable habit, but one which we are obliged to recognize...
...Pratt - "Not Daniel," said Oscar, "but simplistically beautiful Dan'l." Immediately our reporter excused himself, and after examining the guest-book, the chief of police and several other Boston dignitaries, he found that Mr. Pratt was actually staying at the Vendome - his room was up pretty high, to be sure, but for all that he was at the Vendome. After two or three timid knocks the door was partly opened, and Dan'l's classic head appeared, with the question if he'd come to buy a photograph. The reporter said that such was not his purpose, but he would...
...Harvard Club of New York has increased the proportion of students from that city nearly six-fold since 1866. The large and zealous Harvard Club of San Francisco has greatly contributed to produce the increased resort of young Californians to Cambridge. I am sure that this club can influence young men from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin to go to Harvard. There are hundreds of colleges scattered over the country in which much faithful work is done, but which have not the resources in books, collections, and money which Harvard has accumulated in her 244 years of continuous life...
...Howard, Langdon and Allison's "Swift and Sure" Combination...
They do things better in the West. To be sure, it might be said that the freedom of the press is somewhat infringed upon, but then the majesty of the law must be vindicated at all hazards! At a certain "university" we wot of, whenever the college papers are smitten with a reform fever and begin to cry out for a reform in college administration, the editors are promptly "summoned," and sternly warned to mend their evil ways. If this does not prove effective harsher measures are sometimes adopted; the terrors of suspension are sometimes brought into requisition...