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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...those interested in the subject of rowing, and indeed to all those who are at all jealous of our national reputation, it may be agreeable to hear that, in the recent great University race in England, Mr. J. E. Peabody, an American, was in the winning crew. Had Mr. Peabody followed out his original intention of coming to Harvard, he would have been a most valuable member of our boating community. But fate decreed otherwise, and he went to our Mother University in England, where he has gained considerable reputation as a boating man, and is very favorably spoken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

...second, "Culture and Religion," is rather designed to prove the insufficiency of "Culture" and the falsity of its teaching, than to show how culture and religion may be blended, or what the relation between them should be. The subject is certainly interesting, and becoming more so every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

...indebted to the Rev. Mr. Grafton, of the Church of the Advent, Boston, for this pamphlet. Although sermons do not form as large a part of college reading as might be desired, still the character of the two mentioned above may gain for them something of the attention which is usually bestowed upon literature of a lighter sort. The first is an able refutation of that unscientific theory - as it seems to many - advocated by Tyndall, which seeks to estimate the value of prayer by a test applicable only to human science, and which implies something very like omniscience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

...pleasures of life in Santo Domingo, and the opportunities for gain afforded by that delightful island, are so clearly set forth, that we may safely predict an immediate influx of "settlers," and the ultimate success of the Samana Bay Company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

...swimming in the water. Thus is the fate of Tantalus added to the horrors of Commons. Some of us, who are water-drinkers, must be carrying around a small internal menagerie, or, rather, aquarium, by this time. But time hardens the Commoner to almost anything, and to some it may be amusing to watch the little creatures at play. If one of these persons is of an inventive turn of mind, he might have his name handed down to posterity as the inventor of some kind of minute fishing-tackle by which these sportive creatures could be caught. The fishing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

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