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...erected pretentious structures, complex with designs, overloaded with ornamentation and bewildering in turrets and corners; yet with a true artistic instinct he has accomplished a happy mean between a brick box of four sides and a palace. Mrs. Van Rensselaer says of the new Medical School building, that "the task was to build a great square box, wholly of brick, with no ornamentation and with the necessity for floods of light in the interior. Yet there is beauty in the result-architectural beauty of the strictest kind, though no atom of that 'picturesqueness' which popular criticism falsely considers its equivalent...
...attack and defense on this city which lasted for almost ten months. The campaign on which Grant had started out had thinned the ranks of his army one-half while the Confederates were still undismayed and in a position to defend themselves. Mr. Ropes took Grant especially to task for the needless waste which he made in men and material, instead of husbanding them for judicious movements...
...practical Sanskrit reader with graduated passages, and with such aids and explanations as would enable the student to prosecute the study of the language with only occasional, if any, assistance from a teacher. This want Professor Lanman undertook some years ago to supply, and he has performed his task with great ability and success. The writer, himself but a tyro, and a "rusty" one, in Sanskrit, has long felt the want of such a book as this, and believes it will be warmly welcomed by students and teachers, and the increasing body of visitors to India. The work has been...
...next section contains some admonitions to the readers themselves. It says :-Inasmuch as the task imposed upon the students often proves too difficult to be mastered unless the pen is called upon to aid the memory, it is enacted, that the lecturers shall make as little haste as possible in their reading; -that they shall so enunciate each word that the hearers may easily take them down in writing. After the reading is over the Professors shall stop for some time in the recitation rooms and if any scholar shall wish to object to anything they have read, or shall...
...when teams are to a great extent dependent on subscriptions it is absolutely necessary for these subscriptions to be paid promptly in order that the teams may get to work as soon as possible. The duty of collecting the subscriptions must devolve upon a few men, and such a task is onerous enough in itself, without being made harder by forcing those who have it in charge to call several times on each man and then perhaps be refused. A moments reflection will show any one the necessity of subscriptions as our athletics are now carried on. Moreover there...