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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that is different, you know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH EXERCISE, No. 1. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...present a man must make his beginning in science in his college course, for every one knows that the entrance science amounts to nothing. The College recognizes this in Botany, in Chemistry, and in Geology; all of these have excellent courses, where a man may get a good grounding and an idea whether to go on with the subject. But in Zoology there is no such course. To be sure, there is a course marked in the elective pamphlet as "Zoology (Elementary Course)"; but any one who takes the course finds that it is of the most advanced type...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...Sophomore year he published ten volumes on Political Economy, which have now become the text-books - as we all know - of desk, pulpit, and platform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN AT HARVARD. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...been home many hours; the female members of the family had not exclaimed more than a thousand times, "Why, Fred, how you've changed! I 'd hardly know you!" my younger brother had only just succeeded in smashing my first cane, when word was brought that, "Your father would like to see you in the study, Mr. Fred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...glad of it; you have taken quite a load off my mind, for I feared that you were in danger of dismissal. Well, Fred, I won't detain you longer, your sisters are dying to know all about college; but before you go, here's a specimen of specie payments from me as a Detur for your good work in Latin and Greek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

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