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...plan, the expenses of the crew, the rent of both boat-houses, and the salary of a janitor could be paid, and leave a balance of over one thousand dollars to spend annually on repairs and new boats. These are the main features of his plan, though his whole article deserves a careful perusal...
...catalogue, finds the name of some Sophomore or sister Freshman, and "in flowery and verbless sentences" pleads with her to correspond with him. But the Vassar maiden always laughs at his poor spelling, ridicules his absurd mistakes, and "resents the impertinent demand on her time and attention." On the whole, the fun seems to be pretty equally divided, only we would suggest that the Yale and Harvard writers pay still less attention to rhetoric and dictionary, for, as it is, their communications are said to be less amusing than the others...
...Justin Winsor, who for nearly ten years has been the able and efficient Superintendent of the Boston Public Library. Of the subsequent proceedings between Mr. Winsor and the city authorities, wherein efforts were made to retain him, it is unnecessary here to speak, as the dailies have told the whole story time and time again. Whether Mr. Winsor was to be preferred to another great scholar and brilliant writer, for some time past closely connected with the Library, whatever our views on the subject, we will not attempt to discuss...
...Winsor's record in the Boston Library has been faultless, and the whole management, while under his care, has been a marvel of correctness, exactness, and faithfulness. At the age of eighteen, we are told, he wrote the history of the town of Duxbury; entered this College in the class of '53, but for some reason left at the end of the Sophomore year, and went to Europe, where he remained for three years. His degree was given him in '68. Returning from Europe, he settled in Boston; was elected Trustee of the Boston Library, and was called upon...
COLLEGE papers of that class which delight their readers with articles on "Character," "Fame," and the "Whole Duty of Man," have been greatly distressed this year because our papers have given up so much space to matters relating to Memorial Hall, and the Yale papers even have failed to find interesting some of our discussions on the commons. These papers probably do not know how great an institution our Dining Association is, and how intimately the students are connected with its management. They do not know that the Hall, which in a year does a business as great...