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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...difficulty of such an undertaking becomes apparent when we remember that the articles in the first seventy-seven volumes were published anonymously, and that it was owing entirely to the diligence of Mr. Cutter, Mr. Sibley, and Mr. Bowen, that the volumes in our Library alone contain a list of the writers who appeared in the early pages of the Review...
...Henry Adams, eighteen. John Quincy Adams appears to have written nothing for the Review. The one who contributed the greatest number of articles was Edward Everett, who wrote no less than one hundred and sixteen. This number becomes more astonishing when we reflect that during Mr. Everett's first editorship, he was just entering on his duties as professor, and during his second he was a member of Congress. Notwithstanding these other duties, Mr. Everett once took lessons in Spanish for three weeks, in order to review Dean Funes' History of Paraguay...
...First Division. "Do the Faculties of Man differ from those of Brutes in Kind or only in Degree...
...Freshman Glee Club certainly has its advantages, and no doubt it might have been started most successfully had my undexterous classmate troubled himself more about its birth and troubled us less about his "first-rate 2d tenor." As the matter now stands, however, the Glee Club is out of the question; for the members of such a thing would be the laughing-stock of the College after my brilliant friend's effusion...
...First, the exercises have been spread over too great a part of the day. The afternoon and evening give plenty of time for the whole programme. The function of host is a difficult one at best, especially to students who have had but little practice. It would be wise, therefore, to make the burden of entertainment as light as possible by bringing the exercises into the latter half of the day. This change would cause the good things of the day to occur in such rapid succession that no visitor would have time to grow weary. Furthermore, ladies...