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...most interesting parts of the present number is an editorial which tells what the editors think the Monthly should be. "The only excuse," they say, "for such a paper is, in our eyes, that it encourages thinking on literary matters." It should aim, moreover, to print only articles which are free from affectation and are in good literary form. None of the articles which I have so briefly mentioned fails to reach this standard. They all show appreciation of literary form; they are agreeably free from affectation; and they encourage thinking, if not always on purely literary matters, at least...
That the situation in New York is critical, I think is undisputable. Both parties realize that a defeat this year would be a severe blow, -- the Fusion party, because the good work of the last administration would be undone; Tammany, because two defeats in succession would greatly hurt its prestige...
...some way, the unwritten law discouraging Freshmen from smoking pipes and cigars on the street, seems to have been extended to include the Union. This, I think, is a mistake. The success of the Union depends, in the last analysis, upon succeeding Freshman classes, and if they approach the Club in the right spirit, and can be made to feel that it is their home as well as that of all other Harvard men, they will make the Union an even greater success than it has been heretofore. Therefore, I think that, in the Union, all class as well...
...taste and discretion. And it is every man's privilege, if not the secret of his happiness, that he may restrict the circle of his intimates to those whose tastes square with his own and to whom he can look for all around betterment. But if we are to think of him as one who never inflicts pain, the gentleman cannot retain his integrity and let pass unnoticed the acquaintance whose hand he has over grasped and who is one with him in a great and, as we are fond of thinking, an ideal society of scholars. UNDERGRADUATE...
...United States must think not merely of the menace its self. From their birth she has watched over the little republics of South America and helped them to work out the great problem of self government. Can she now calmly see done to them the worst injustice that can be done to any state--their land taken from them? The law never takes the mechanic's tools, the lawyer's books, nor can it take the home of the bankrupt. Once allow a European state a foot-hold in South America and it will be impossible to prevent its taking...