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Unfortunately, at the beginning of the present year I had thoroughly "done" Cambridge and all the surrounding towns, with the exception of Concord and Lexington, to which I propose to make a pilgrimage on the coming 19th of April. While I was thus sighing for new worlds to conquer, I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALKS. | 3/26/1875 | See Source »

WE once labored under the delusion that a note-book was an indispensable part of a Senior's equipment, and that notes were given for the express purpose of clearing up whatever was obscure and confused in the subject under consideration. Moreover, not the slightest doubt o'ershadowed our mental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND QUERIES. | 1/15/1875 | See Source »

PERHAPS no community of men is less subject to the thoughts which attend a realizing sense of the inevitability and imminence of death than a college community; and this for several reasons. Of these the most important is the age of its members, to which the consideration of death is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

In speaking of military drill he says: "Are we never going to wake from the delusion that various pursuits and occupations which war rendered necessary more than ten years ago are proper ingredients in a life of settled peace?"

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MILITARY SPIRIT. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

There is no delusion produced by the nobler title of professor; we know the difference both in the manner of giving and the instruction given. The relations between instructor and learner are different, are less restrained and more sociable.

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

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