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First, Antigone, I will give you a black eye, to indicate that you must not scribble on my easel again; and long flowing hair, to show that you are in love. For this I take yellow ochre and gamboge, not too much of either, with a slight infusion of chiaroscuro. She shall have a blue tunic like the Sienese madonnas, spotted with little stars. For this, take cobalt, Mars orange, and Chinese white, about half and half. Her feet must be delicately sandalled, as if to walk only on a bed of roses. Around her neck there must...
...mail-boxes I do not mean the dainty, fragile articles often so misnamed; but the big, honest, ugly iron boxes that are painted green, and shaped like knapsacks; and that open their capacious chests, not to the minions of a single household, but to all the world. We take it that the post is a mere support, - "Ah yes!" they exclaim; "it is the post and not the box that has scores of times offered us a friendly support." - "What?" - "Why?" - But their blushes warrant us in not pressing the point. Having thus triumphantly put to flight all these mistaken...
...others. The letter-box - or, if you please, the lamp-post - wears its wallet but in front. Faults of its own it has none; but when does it fail to bear the burden of others' mistakes? And do not tell me it is but a senseless object. No, take my word, it broods over all these secrets that are trustfully committed to its keeping; it ponders anxiously over the remedy to be applied here, or the check there. It has a soul. It is not an it, but an It, with a big I. It feels, and feels deeply...
...system of giving degrees of different grades certainly is worthy of the praise it has received, but a case has arisen which the "Rules and Regulations" evidently have omitted to provide for. As the rules now stand, a student who enters College Sophomore year, and does not take enough studies in any one branch to get honorable mention, may have an average of 84 1/2 per cent and yet receive only an ordinary degree; in fact, a poorer degree than the four-years student with 65 per cent and an honorable mention. To draw the line still more sharply...
...this plan by any of the Faculty is a matter of congratulation, not only on account of the benefit to the Juniors, but because it shows that there is a prospect of another step from a conservative to a liberal policy. There is no reason for making Juniors take fourteen hours, except that they always have done so. We cannot see why Seniors should take fewer hours than Juniors are obliged to, unless the Faculty confess that the work previous to the Senior year has been too much, and that some opportunity for making up the conditions necessitated...