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...difficulty comes in the fact that there are not enough Mark Hopkinses to go round. Here, however, as many acquaintances with helpful members of the Faculty may be formed as in a small college. With care and caution, there may also be formed as many good, solid, life-long friendships...
Thomas Nelson, a life-long resident of Boston, and a member of Harvard College, class of '66, died at his home last Friday evening. Mr. Nelson was prominently identified with mining interests...
...crisis of the play occurs when the Cid is called upon to avenge the insult offered to his own father by Don Gormas whose daughter he has loved for years. Here we seem to have a glimpse at the workings of his heart, he must choose either life-long disgrace or mortal conflict with the father of Chimene. He hesitates but a moment while he looks over the blasted hopes of the life which has just begun, then he turns sternly to his duty, with death or a life without Chimene as the only possible prospect for the future...
...subject of Mr. Copeland's lecture last night was "Twenty Novels for a Desert Island." If one were left alone on a desert island from which there was to be no return, what twenty novels would be the most satisfactory in such a life-long solitude? In answer to this question Mr. Copeland had collected lists from some thirty persons of different ages and occupations. Some few of these lists he read, after a consideration of the qualities which would in general be demanded of novels which were alone to represent the whole mass of fiction...
gence as the messages that run along the telegraph wire to the birds that perch on it. Few men learn the highest use of books. After life-long study many a man discovers too late that to have had the philosopher's stone availed nothing without the philosopher to use it. Many a scholarly life, stretched like a talking wire to bring the wisdom of antiquity into communion with the present, can at last yield us no better news than the true accent of a Greek verse, or the translation of some filthy nothing scrawled on the walls...