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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Not only does each one of its devotees deprive himself of much pleasure, but also of a great addition to his personal knowledge; for no education, however rich in book lore, is complete without a knowledge of the world; and where can it be better studied? From his lookout all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISANTHROPY. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

PROBABLY no one has ever attempted prose writing wherein he has endeavored to convey his ideas by metaphors, without feeling the force of Voltaire's complaint "En l'ecrivant meme l'idee m'echappe." And if this is true of prose writing, where words are not restricted, how much more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OF POETRY, - ART VERSUS SPIRIT. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

Prof. (ready to bust). Can't you see that ewer full of AS?

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

It would be considered a ridiculous proposition if any one should urge upon the students here to try to take possession of the caucuses in Cambridge, and swamp the regular politicians of the First Ward, and yet it is not merely possible, but quite likely, that such an attempt would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS AND POLITICS. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

Bidding a truce to dates, Christ Hospital was founded three hundred years ago by the boy-king Edward VI., in a large monastery whose inmates had been driven out in the hostile reign of bluff King Hal. Starting with 350 scholars, it has now 1200; but it is not a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO OLD SCHOOLS. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

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