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...Annalist (Albion College, Mich.) contains this week much that is interesting and instructive. Its article upon the Edenic Intellect, equally brilliant and entertaining, begins with the startling announcement, "Human language hath personal as well as ethnic and cosmical relations." Let us ponder upon this, and when we have duly pondered, go on with the author, glowing like him with real pride at the thought, "To have placed itself at the historic headship of the race that cut off all pre-historic races, and crushed out of being all synchronic races, is certainly proof of no mean power, worthy almost scientific...
...have received the March number of Lippincott's, which is as good as ever. It has a well-written and well-illustrated article on the "Roumi in Kabylia"; one by Professor T. B. Maury upon the Trans-Alleghany Water-Way; the opening chapters of Mr. William Black's new novel, "A Princess of Thule," which bids fair to equal in interest his "Monarch of Mincing Lane" and the "Phaeton." Charles Warren Stoddard contributes a powerful piece of writing entitled "In the Cradle of the Deep." "Probationer Leonhard" is concluded. The criticism of Miss Neilson in the Monthly Gossip seems...
...mean - that friendly young man whose visits are as regular as the flow and ebb of the sea; that congenial soul who, on finding our oak sported, evinces his superior knowledge of college customs by treating us to the soul-soothing sound of the devil's tattoo beaten upon our door in a manner truly vigorous, giving vent at the same time to expressions of mistrust as to our being out, and whose incredulous phiz we finally see peering at us through the ventilator. In what a pleasant frame of mind do we then welcome him with assurances that...
...course, if a tournament is decided upon, the arrangements must be made by delegates from all the colleges...
...provided ample accommodation for one hundred students in 1865 affords but scanty space for three hundred students in 1873; that ranges intended for the cooking of eight joints of meat cannot be made to serve for the cooking of twenty-four joints; that although one waiter may wait properly upon ten men, she may not possess the power to answer the demands of twenty-four hungry undergraduates...