Word: exceptions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...labor of the antiquary, too, except in so far as it throws light upon "useful" points in history, must be condemned at once. If there still exists an old curiosity shop in some unsuspected and hardly useful spot, let it be dismantled at once. Out with the useless lumber, - it will make firewood at least, - and away to the poor-house with the doting old fool who sleeps in a Mayflower bed and pokes his fire with a blade of Damascus...
...Paul's Society. - The Rev. C. C. Grafton will lecture before the Society on Monday evening, March 16, instead of on Wednesday the 18th, as previously published. Litany services are held daily, except on Saturdays and Sundays...
...borne without real hardship. And such a way of living could not but be in the interests of study. It is a pity, therefore, that the rooms in the new buildings should have been designed for chums, having, as they do, more rooms in a suite than any except the most luxurious of us could dispose of, if rooming alone...
...they are only prudent, whatever they may do. In such cases a pledge would fail, for all to a man would refuse to sign it. Nor do they need such a thing. They drink too much just as they eat too much; no particular harm results in either case except to the individual...
...present moment there are teachers nearly everywhere, except perhaps in some secluded districts in the mountains of Auvergne or in Lower Brittany. I maintain, therefore, that it is not in the number of teachers that we are deficient. And yet we are in reality behind the other nations in matters of education. Whence does this arise? There are several reasons. In the first place, the children are not sent to school, or are taken away too young. Every commune, as I told you, pays its own teacher. It gives him a fixed salary, varying between four hundred and eight hundred...