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But now just as surpassed in springing up,

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESCRIPTION OF FLORENCE. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

"A youth should be quite ready to enter college at the age of sixteen," and with students of sixteen or eighteen, the temptations to idleness and dissipation can only be counteracted by a system compelling attendance at recitations. Examinations at the close of the year will not check these evils...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. McCOSH ON VOLUNTARY RECITATIONS. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

We can learn something in this respect from our friends of the smaller colleges. The senior in shiny black who takes life so very hard, and is so very pedantic, is not, to be sure, so dashing and cultivated a character as his contemporaries at Harvard and Yale, but he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDIFFERENCE. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

The class to which this hero belongs, curiously enough, has no common name. I protest against this deficiency, and call upon the College to supply it. Must one be compelled to say, "Have you seen the man who makes my fire, blacks my boots, brings up the water, steals the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHARACTER. | 1/28/1873 | See Source »

But to come to our principal object, how much larger and more beneficial would the effects of the institution be made if the smokers were not entirely excluded! The wish must have constantly recurred to the minds of nearly every member of that class, that he could enjoy his after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR READING-ROOM. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »