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ADELINA PATTI recently sang in the Huguenots, at the Grand Opera in Paris. Nearly eight thousand dollars were cleared, and we have particular reason to be thankful for the success, as the whole sum is to be devoted to the inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine...
...pupils. Is it for a learner to state objections? By no means. Shall we doubt anything? Not at all. But, to carry dogmatism to its extreme verge, he is at stated intervals formally to proclaim liberty of opinion and invite freedom of discussion. Having thus forced the whole system of metaphysics upon the young idea, it will incontinently reject all and of course adopt the opposite side, which of course was the thing aimed...
...Bostons, after their summer's play, are in excellent practice, and with their professional player form one of the strongest Elevens in the country. Our Eleven suffered from the loss of one of their bowlers, and were, as a whole, quite out of practice, even in fielding. They are to be congratulated for doing as well as they did. There is promising material in College for a good eleven, and Mr. Lee hopes to have a team in the Spring whose record shall not fall behind that...
...Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Will the whole Finance-Ministers and Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY? They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two; for the Shoeblack also has a Soul quite other than his Stomach; and would require, if you consider it, for his permanent satisfaction and saturation, simply this allotment, no more and no less: God's infinite Universe altogether to himself...
...glean from the Courant the following items: Estimate of necessary expenses, $ 375 to $ 650. The Christmas vacation has been lengthened to three weeks. 6,000 volumes have been added to the library. In the whole University there are 87 instructors and 1,031 students. "For the purpose of meeting a long-felt wish of the Alumni, sub-graduates, and university men, in increasing college unity and the knowledge thereof, a general YALE PIN is proposed." Any toy to keep them out of mischief...