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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...these days of compassion it needs not to plead for this principle; it will at once be approved by all true artists. I thought at first that the rule should read "all cruelty"; but it is clear that the art of murder, like that of medicine (in the matter of vivisection), sometimes demands the infliction of pain; cruelty, in this sense, is not always avoidable. For instance, in that admirable and truly Gothic bit of art related by De Quincey, - the killing of the baker, - no inconsiderable amount of distress was put upon the subject of the murder...
That a course in New Philosophy would take advantage of what enthusiasm there is here, and so utilize it that it should increase rather than, as now, decrease, cannot be a matter of serious doubt...
This mode of proceeding is of course extremely gratifying to the remainder, who, after waiting for the work of devastation to be completed by these Vandals, are obliged to chew the cud of sweet and bitter fancy as consolation for the loss of the best parts of their reading matter. It is astonishing to us how any man who has the least respect for himself can filch articles from papers, knowing all the while that he is depriving other men of their share in the privileges to which, as members of the Reading-Room Association, they are entitled. Furthermore, this...
There were several essays, however, that are worthy of note, either from their own merits or their subject. Mr. Croswell read an essay, a third of which was Latin poetry, "De Lunae natura; utrum viridis casei sit aut contra." His strongest argument was that the moon was a matter of square feet and inches, while it was impossible to cut in-ches out of cheese. Mr. Emerson wrote on "A Shabby Monarch, or Napoleon out at Elba." Mr. Gerrish's subject was, "Whirly and Late, or the Last Waltz" (whirly for early, you know, because you whirl when you dance...
...some length an editorial on the study of Political Science which appeared in the Magenta of March 12. For some time past the Post has been urging upon our colleges the necessity of devoting more attention to this subject; and it expresses its approval of our views upon the matter. It imagines, however, from some careless expressions of ours, that the study of Political Economy is confounded with that of the Constitution at Harvard, as it appears to be at some other colleges; and that both are studied in the most abstract manner. As our former article appears to have...