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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...readers has decreased, we do not believe, for such a state of things could hardly be consistent with the improvement in the contents of the paper which this year has shown. For many men, it is to be feared, have fallen into the habit of dropping in on some friend who takes the Advocate, and indulging in its good things with the proverbial gusto which always accompanies stolen fruit. Seriously, it would be a disgrace that we could ill afford to suffer to have the Advocate abandoned because of a spirit of indifference-or something more-on the part...
...related that the last time Mr. Gladstone went to Nice to recuperate, a friend found him in the garden one day writing page after page of what seemed to be an important public dispatch. He apologized for the interruption. "Not at all," said the prime minister; "I am only writing in reply to an Eton boy who wrote to me on a point in Homer." He confessed that he did not know his questioner; but it was a pleasure for an old Etonian to spend his holiday in satisfying the desire for knowledge...
...entered our friend's room. Magnificent! Hanging Chandelebra, statuary, portieres, pictures, (all society), etc., etc.; but the same old-! Our friend was playing cards. His opponent holding a full hand, wanted to finish the game. But our call effectually ended the game, and so we were invited to glance at Tufts. We were drawn to the window, and bade to glance toward Cambridge. The view was very fine, but was soon obstructed by the re-appearance of our athletic friends. We were surprised at the smile of pride that covered the face of our friend as he cried...
...pass on. We enter an elegant and commodious elevator, are raised many stories and at last enter the Museum. Here are arrayed in all their princely magnificence the immense stores of dried plants gathered by the sophomores last spring. But the Museum is a disappointment, yet as our friend said, "it is young you know." We enter the Chemical laboratory, but feel constrained by the size of the room and depart. We pass from room to room, hall to hall, gaze at this and wonder at that, until in sheer exhaustion, we descend to earth again. We pass out thro...
Prof. C. C. Everett and Prof. E. C. Peabody, of the committee on the library, have published a statement, in the hope that some friend of the school may come to its aid, so that it can accept this gift. Some of the volumes are of general interest, and some are very curious and rare. the donation is received with gratitude, but also with embarrassment, for at present there is no accommodation for so large a collection. A condition of the gift is, that "there shall be secured, as soon as possible, for this condition and for the rest...