Word: foundings
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...Paris. In fact, it is to be regretted that some of our strongest scholars are hampered to such a degree in their private work by the amount of devotion to university lecturing that is required of them. It is to be hoped that means will soon be found to enlarge the corps of instructors quite considerably, and by the addition of able scholars. The prospect which then opens before us for an enlargement of the field of instruction is both pleasing and encouraging as an evidence that, with due equipment, the United States will be able to compete with...
...Harvard and Its Surroundings," and "Hammersmith, his Harvard Days," will be found in stock till July...
Freshman English. - An abstract of Hill's Rhetoric (second half year) may be found at Wheeler...
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...From a pretty careful examination of this volume we are inclined to think it one of the best brief accounts of our constitutional system that have been published. It has the sort of merit that is usually found in the comments of a competent foreign observer upon the institutions of any country. Things that attract little attention, and so are often not at all remarked or understood by those who live under a given system, strike a stranger with the charm of novelty; they are tacitly compared with other institutions, and their true character is often more keenly perceived...