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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...purpose to criticise, but to expound"; yet I cannot help stating the following positions, in which, I think, students themselves will agree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSCULAR DOUBTS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

...forgets that truth loses no strength by age, that "Repetition is the mother of Memory," and that some truths cannot be too constantly borne in mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCOURTEOUS CRITICISM. | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

Their beauty, for they cannot match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAURA. | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

...this last change we cannot too strongly object; but as the importance of a required course in Political Economy was discussed at some length in these columns last year, we will not revive the subject, but we feel sure that all will regret the giving up of a study at once so useful and necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

...amusing to see "the singing of the Glee Club" and "the Art Club's knowledge of art" condemned in the same sentence. The Glee Club certainly pretends to know something of singing, but yet it is undeniable that they can sing; and whether they sing well or not, they cannot justly be called hypocrites until they pretend to do something that they fail to do. With the Art Club the case is different. No knowledge of art is required of candidates for admission, as the Glee Club requires of its members ability to sing. Members of the Art Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST STRAW. | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

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