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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...methods of government, will be of decided advantage to the college at large. These ends can be gained by the proposed conference, and they will pave the way for a scheme of harmonious faculty-student control of vexing college questions that will meet with the approval of even our friend on the Lampoon...
...scrutiny which he keeps up for fully twenty minutes. At last, however, a point has been made that to Snodkins' mind is really worth taking down. Slowly the note-book is placed open on the table, a pencil is drawn out, and work is begun. I watch my friend closely; he works slowly, but deliberately, and soon, raising myself a little, I see, not a page of carefully written notes, but a wonderfully life-like portrait of the "man in the box," mouth open and hand raised. It is indeed a wonderful picture! In it I read pages...
...full of meaning! Or, again it is "Snodkins, '85," with, conspicuously near, a reference to "p. 199," or "p. 299." I look up the first reference, and find that it relates to the Chinese in America, from which circumstance I have to draw too obvious conclusions about my friend's nationality. The portraits of the great lecturer are almost without number, representing him in every conceivable position. They are all dated, I suppose to give individuality to the different ones. Each sketch, I conclude, represents the ideas of a certain lecture given, say, No. 24, or No. 26. The affixing...
After I have reviewed the book with considerable care, I ask myself what must be the theory on which my friend Snodkins has worked. Here are his notes,- but how do they disclose the principles of Political Economy? The subject itself is not touched upon, but nevertheless I feel in a distinctly political-economical mood; I am led to think of Mill, Cairnes, Walker and Richards, and of their overpowering ideas. But how? At last I find an explanation; I am forced to a realization of the power of the association of abstract ideas and principles with physical, that...
...Entering, we passed through the long hall, and were shown to our dressing room from which we went to the reception, held in the corridor on the second floor. The corridors were filled with members of the Faculty, juniors, and their guests. We first drank tea with the kind friend who invited us, and we were then taken through the upper part of the building. We passed up the stairs, through the halls. Elegant pictures adorned the walls, statuary and tropical plants were frequently seen, and, indeed, everything was beautiful...