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Very little has been left us concerning John Harvard's life in this country, still less is known of it in the mother-land, and we are driven to the scanty records of what he did that we may glean a few points, at least, in regard to his character. The only facts known about him are that he was a member of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; that in 1635 he received his degree; that afterwards, in 1637, he obtained the higher one of A. M. In the latter part of this year he set sail for this country and became...
Along the fields where peasants glean...
When my neighbor calls to return a borrowed book, and for a whole hour imposes upon me his theories respecting the Eastern Question, all of which it required less than five minutes to glean from an article in a newspaper of the evening previous, I fully realize this evil. How soothing to my impatience is his assurance that he was not aware time was passing so quickly, when to me ages were slowly wearing away...
STUDENTS of Rhetoric may well congratulate themselves because, instead of being obliged to glean from the antiquated pages of Campbell and puzzle over the blind theories of Whately, they have all that is valuable in these two writers, and much that is important and fresher brought together in an inviting volume of less than three hundred pages...
...status quo of Cornell is lower than it has been at any preceding time.' - Review. The writer evidently thinks that the sine qua non, the multum in parvo, and the sine die still maintain their old standard, but we are unable to glean from the article whether the e pluribus unum and the et tu Brute of Cornell are on the rise or decline, although the reference to the `sub judice questions' may cover the ground." - Yale Courant...