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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is a very important matter both as regards comfort and health, especially during the mid-year period when most men find it absolutely necessary to spend many hours a week in the reading room and wish to use their energies in study, instead of squandering them in the effort, frequently vain, to keep awake. The building is an old one we know, and is not supplied with modern appliances yet it seems as though a little more care of the heating apparatus and a little more liberal admission of out door air might easily be secured...
...cold. He showed how this passage is a warning to all that are at ease, and say "I need nothing." We must always seek something greater and fuller, always stive for nobler things, and finally, when we have come to deserve God, He will come to us. We should find some task which human powers have failed to do, and which can only be done by divine power, and then by setting to work upon it we shall receive help from...
...which is drawn out, by the light of the most recent researches, the gradual development of the English constitutional system and the growth out of that system of the federal republic of the United States. Mr. Taylor is a writer of the school of Freeman and Fiske, who find in constitutional history a gradual evolution of the principles of government. To students of American history the introductory chapter on the English origin of the federal republic of the United States will be of the greatest value. This aspect of our history has been but scantily treated hitherto. The first volume...
...work, the little group of poems before us will of a certainty live by their own merit. They lack as a whole, perhaps, the mystical character which he imparted to his earlier works, and yet like these they mingle the worlds of fact and fancy. Love, humor, pathos, all find place here and the classic and the modern are mingled. The little volume is a beautiful piece of bookmaking in binding, paper and printing. A fine engraving of Robert Browning serves as frontispiece...
...which is most attractive to the real oarsman, but the fun of sculling-an art which, once acquired, will yield more pleasure to many than any other sport. I earnestly hope that men will not be discouraged by imaginary difficulties, but find out at least what advantages there are for sculling in Cambridge...