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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...reading for the Lee prizes took place last week, and the following prizes were awarded: First Prizes, C. A. Dickinson, E. Bicknell, F. W. Griffin; second prizes, W. Tappan, A. A. Wheeler, and E. E. Parker...
...FIRST FRESH. (who has waited two weeks for the college carpenter to mend his windows). Why am I like Milo...
...FIRST FRESH. Because I have found a lier-in-Waitt...
...immense culture requisite to become master of the Ruskin mode of thought may at first appear a desirable objective point. But reflection cannot fail to show that, where one attains the desired end, a hundred advance on the path only so far as to upset their faith in their old ideas of art. These substitute in its place such a doubt of their power to appreciate works of true genius, and such a fear lest their ignorance of some technical point may lead them into some un-Ruskinian expression of admiration, that the pleasure which they feel in contemplating masterpieces...
...guide the researches of finished scholars and learned men of leisure, are hardly as applicable to the student. They forget that the critical care with which they search the intricacies of works, to themselves familiar, is hardly appreciable, and certainly not enjoyable, to the student who for the first time opens these pages. They do not remember the good old-fashioned education which gave them their fondness for the life they now pursue, but only call to mind their new theories, and apply them practically to the rising generations of students...