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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...English cousins have been very generous of late. Each mail brings us more college news from the other side of the Atlantic. To-day we have to acknowledge the receipt of the Oxford Undergraduate's Journal; a large paper full of matter, chiefly of local interest...
...bass was too loud several times. The "Chorus of Pilgrims," from Tannhauser, was given with grand effect. Considering the difficulties which lie in the middle of this piece, consisting of accidentals, naturals, and other terrors, the Club deserve great credit for their fine rendering. A charming old English ballad received an intelligent interpretation. "The Violet" of Mozart was well rendered as an encore. The fact is, encores seemed to be the order of the evening, though it is hard to see how there could be much enthusiasm in so poorly ventilated a hall...
...superior to bourgeois, but De Quincey might well be pardoned for denying the name of gentleman to a man who cut the leaves of a book, in the author's presence, with a table-knife covered with butter. This indeed is a trifle, and for the perfection of the English bourgeois-artiste character we must go to Dr. Johnson. There is a good deal, after all, to be said in excuse of the first gentleman of his time letting him wait in the anteroom among the lackeys; for except in his learning and moral character, he was little better than...
...rational temperance, not altogether due to the (so-called) "Temperance Party," has been adopted by almost all. It seems, then, like a repetition of the old mistake to hold up teetotalism as the highest virtue, and, in regard to our own College, Why, we ask again, should the almost English system of our Commons be defaced by so superannuated an Americanism as the enforcement (to the extent of the Faculty's power) of total abstinence? Our climate may not make ale or cider necessary for all, but illness certainly makes it helpful to some, and a friend of ours...
...called upon to write is scarcely better off than the one who "cuts," for the former is to all intents and purposes absent. If the course is history, and the family name of some nobleman is given which without doubt is very necessary to a clear understanding of English politics, he is too absorbed in his writing to hear it, and thus that important fact is lost...