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...Century bill-of-fare for March is varied enough to suit the most captious magazine reader. Unusually entertaining is the third installment of the famous Talleyrand Memoirs, containing, as it does, comments on the luxury and vice of Napoleon's court, which derive a peculiar flavor, coming, as they do, from the pen of Talley-rand...
...place. It seems to me the individual who wrote the attack yesterday morning showed only his own disagreeable feeling toward monitors and not those of the majority of the men in college, and certainly not of the freshmen who have not yet learned to assume the overbearing captious attitude of most of the upper-classmen...
...have little to say, because there is so much to praise, so little to - not condemn, but differ from. It is a model among the monthlies; the department, De Temporibus et Moribus, we have sufficiently commended heretofore . . . The Cornell papers form the strongest possible contrast to the Miscellany, - captious and undignified in manner, engaged in quarrelling with each other, discourteous in the extreme toward other colleges. The Era has disgraced itself in its attack upon Oberlin, whose Review, by the way, is very readable and sensibly written. . . And this brings us to the general subject of our Western exchanges, which...
...make some reply, and does it by saying that there is a great deal of poetry, better than any the Magazine ever publishes, in the Lit's waste-basket. To such an answer, at once a courteous criticism, an interesting fact, and a complete reply to the Magazine's captious fault-finding, what can be said...
...seem captious to complain of the advantages which are offered us in the way of University Lectures, but we feel sure that the good which they do might be very greatly increased if they were differently conducted. Lectures in Sanders Theatre which can only draw an audience of about one hundred persons are a decided failure. Although part of the blame for this state of things rests with those who are too indifferent to attend any lectures, however interesting and instructive they may be, there are other reasons as well. We know of several men interested in the subject...