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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...took Classical Honors in '7-) I've been teaching Latin here. My position would be very pleasant if the students would only pronounce rightly, and not persist in spelling caelum, coelum, and cena, caena, or coena. The worst of the matter is that they are sustained by the only text-books to be had in this unenlightened district. Just think of it, Jim, while revelling in your texts of Bibl. Teubner., that we poor mortals can get no classics of later date than 1870. Then my pupils will take as models those antiquated old fossils who talked about the rules...
...Sophomore year he published ten volumes on Political Economy, which have now become the text-books - as we all know - of desk, pulpit, and platform...
...perfectly evident, for a view of the Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s building occupies most of the page. In fact, Mr. King's ingenuity and audacity in the matter of advertisements are something to be admired. Not satisfied with the liberal amount of advertisements outside of the text, he begins with the title-page and strings them all along through the book. The engraving of one of the Fall-River steamers which is introduced in the middle of the text might just as well be a likeness of George Washington, so far as its connection with a handbook of Boston...
OXFORD, as every one knows by this time, has sent a reply to the H. U. B. C. relative to a race with Harvard next summer, stating that it will be impossible to keep a University crew in training up to August 1. The text of the letter will be found in another column. The reasons given for declining the proposal are that the Oxford term ends early in June, that the 'Varsity men do not keep together after the inter-'Varsity race in February or March, and that it would be very difficult to persuade them to keep...
...delay in the arrival of the text-books in Phil. 5 is severely testing the moral endurance of the section...